Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grajati

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *grāˀ-, *grāˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Lithuanian gróti (“to caw, to croak, to howl, to roar, to scold”) (1sg. gróju; also grióti, 1sg. grióju), Old High German krāen (“to crow”).

Verb

*grajati impf

1. to caw, to croak

Inflection

Related terms

• *grakati (“to caw, to croak”)
• *gъrkati (“to coo”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: граꙗти (grajati)
    • Russian: гра́ять (grájatʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: гра́я (grája)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гра̏јати, гра́јати

    Latin: grȁjati, grájati

    • ⇒ Romanian: grăi
  • Slovene: grājati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: grać

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grajati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 101
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гра́ять”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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