Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kresati

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.

Cognate with Lithuanian krešė́ti (“to clot, to dry and harden”), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *kreḱ- (“to strike, beat”), and cognate with Ancient Greek κρέκω (krékō, “to weave; to strike a stringed instrument with a plectrum”), κρόκη (krókē, “thread, woof”),^[1] Proto-Germanic *hrahilaz (“reed of a loom”) (whence English reel), and *hragilą (“garment”).^[2]

Yakulis alternatively derives the Baltic and Slavic terms from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).^[3]

*kresati^[4]

1. to strike fire

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: краса́ць (krasácʹ)
  • Russian: креса́ть (kresátʹ), креси́ть (kresítʹ) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: креса́ти (kresáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: крѐсати

    Latin script: krèsati

  • Slovene: kresáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: křesati
    • Czech: křesat
  • Kashubian: krzosac
  • Polish: krzesać, krzosać (dialectal)
  • Slovak: kresať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kśasaś (dialectal)
    • Upper Sorbian: křesać

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “креси́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress