Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kuditi

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-Indo-European *kowdéyeti, causative/iterative from the root *kewd-, or derived from *kudъ, *kudь, *kudo (“sorcery? evil spirit?”), from the same root. Cognate with Ancient Greek κυδάζω (kudázō, “to jeer at”), Old Norse hóta (“to threaten”), English hoot, Old High German hosc (“scorn, mockery”), Middle High German hiuzen (“to become impudent”), Sanskrit कुत्सयति (kutsáyati, “to scold”).

*kùditi impf^[1]

1. to prosecute

   Synonym: *goniti

2. to accuse, to reproach, to slander

   Synonyms: *xuliti, *koriti

Intensive stem: *kuďati

• *jьzkuditi
• *nakuditi
• *prokuditi, *perkuditi
• *kuditeľь (“accuser, persecutor”)
• *kudьba (“blasphemy”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: кꙋдити (kuditi)
    • Russian: ку́дить (kúditʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: коудити (kuditi)
  • Bulgarian: ку́дя (kúdja) (dialectal, poetic)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: проку́дя (prokúdja)
  • Macedonian: куди (kudi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ку̏дити

    Latin script: kȕditi

  • Slovene: kúditi (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Polish: przekudzić (dialectal)
  • Slovak: kudiť (Jungmann's and Kott's dictionaries; archaic or dialectal)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “-куди́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kuditi”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 82
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кудя¹”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 77