Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mazati

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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

Unclear.

Verb

*màzati impf[1][2]

  1. to smear
  2. to anoint, to oil

Inflection

Descendants

  • Non-Slavic:
    • Romanian: mazac (regional)

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ма́зать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ма́зать”, 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 502
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*mazati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 18 (*matoga – *mękyšьka), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 23

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*màzati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 304:v. (a) ‘smear, anoint’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “mazati: mazjǫ mazjetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a smøre (SA 209; PR 133; MP 23, 27)