Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glumiti

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.

Denominative verb from *glumъ, *gluma (“mockery? amusement? joke?”) + *-iti, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlow-m-, from the root *gʰlew-. Cognate with Old Norse glaumr (“jubilation”), gleyma (“to forget, to jubilate, to make merry”), Old English glēam (“jubilation, joy”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, mockery”), χλευάζω (khleuázō, “to joke”), Lithuanian glaudas, glauda (“fun”) (Daouksha's dictionary), gláudoti (“to joke”), Latvian glaudât (“to joke”).

*glumiti impf^[1]

1. to mock? to amuse? to joke?

• *glumъ, *gluma (“mockery? amusement? joke?”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: глумити (glumiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: глумити (hlumiti)
      • Belarusian: глумі́ць (hlumícʹ)
      • Ukrainian: глуми́ти (hlumýty)
        • ⇒ Ukrainian: глуми́тися (hlumýtysja)
    • Russian: глуми́ться (glumítʹsja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: глоумити (glumiti)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: глумя́ (glumjá)
  • Macedonian: глуми (glumi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: глу́мити

    Latin script: glúmiti

  • Slovene: glūmiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: głumić (dialectal)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: glumi

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “глуми́ться”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 192
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glumiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 148
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глум”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress