Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glъtati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Cognate with Latin gluttiō, glūtiō (“to devour”), more distantly with Old Armenian կլանեմ (klanem, “to devour”), Old Irish gelid (“to devour, to eat up”).

• Derksen: From Proto-Indo-European *glut-, from *glewt-.
• Chernykh: From Proto-Indo-European *gel- or *gʷel-.

Verb

*glъtati impf

1. to swallow
2. to devour

Inflection

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: поглътити (poglŭtiti), глътати (glŭtati)
    • Belarusian: глыта́ць (hlytácʹ)
    • Russian: глота́ть (glotátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: глита́ти (hlytáty)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: ґылтати (gŷltaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: гъ́лтам (gǎ́ltam)
  • Macedonian: голта (golta)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гу̀тати

    Latin script: gùtati

  • Slovene: gołtáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hltati
    • Czech: hltat
  • Old Polish: pogłytać
    • Polish: glutać (dialectal)
  • Slovak: hltať

Further reading

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “глота́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 191
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глота́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glъtati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 157

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