Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grěti

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *grḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr-éh₁-ti, from *gʷʰer- (“to heat”) +‎ *-éh₁ti (“stative suffix”). Cognate with Ancient Greek θερέω (theréō), Albanian ngroh.

*grě̀ti impf^[1][2][3]

1. to warm, to heat
2. to shine

• *grě̀jati

• *grěvъ (“heating, shining”)
• *grěnь (“blaze”)
• *grěxъ (“sin”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: грѣти (grěti); грѣꙗтисꙗ (grějatisja)
    • Belarusian: грэць (hrecʹ)
    • Russian: гре́ть (grétʹ)
    • Ukrainian: грі́ти (hríty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: грѣти (grěti)

    Glagolitic script: ⰳⱃⱑⱅⰻ (grěti)

  • Bulgarian: гре́я (gréja)
  • Macedonian: грее (gree)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гре̏јати

    Latin: grȅjati

  • Slovene: grẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hřieti
    • Czech: hřát
  • Polabian: grijot
  • Polish: grzać
  • Silesian: grzŏć
  • Slovak: hriať
  • Slovincian: grzoc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hrěć
    • Lower Sorbian: grěś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “греть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “греть”, 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 216
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grě(ja)ti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 116