Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/klikati

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 *klīˀkāˀtei. Cognate with Lithuanian klỹkti (“to scream, to yell”) (1sg. klykiù), klìkti (“to shriek, to cry out”) (1sg. klinkù), klýkoti (“to scream, to yell”), klýkauti (“to shout”), Latvian klĩkât (“to scream loudly (in a forest)”), klìekt (“to shout loudly”). Vasmer adds as cognates Middle High German līen, līhen (“to speak, to inform”), Old English hlīgan (“to ascribe”). Per Trubachev, onomatopoeic.

Verb

*klìkati impf

1. to cry out, to call

Inflection

Alternative forms

• *klìťi
• *klìcati

Derived terms

• *klìknǫti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: кликати (klikati) (11th century), кликоша (klikoša) (aorist)
    • Belarusian: клі́каць (klíkacʹ)
    • Russian: кли́кать (klíkatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: кли́кати (klýkaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: клицати (klicati)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: кли́кам (klíkam) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: клика (klika)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кли̏цати, (dialectal) кли̏кати, кли̏ћи, кличе

    Latin: klȉcati, (dialectal) klȉkati

  • Slovene: klícati (tonal orthography), (literary) klíkati
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: klíčeti

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*klikati I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 41
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кли́кать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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