Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obъjьmati

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.

By surface analysis, *obъ- +‎ *jьmati.

*obъjьmati impf (perfective *obęti)

1. to hug, to embrace

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: объимати (obŷimati), обьмати (obĭmati)
    • Old Ruthenian: обыйма́ти (obyjmáti), обойма́ти (obojmáti), обнима́ти (obnimáti), обейма́ти (obejmáti), обьима́ти (obʹimáti)
      • Belarusian: абніма́ць (abnimácʹ); абыйма́ць (abyjmácʹ), абыма́ць (abymácʹ) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: обнима́ти (obnymáty), обыйма́ти (obŷjmáty)
      • Ukrainian: обійма́ти (obijmáty), обніма́ти (obnimáty)
    • Middle Russian: объима́ти (obʺimáti), обоима́ти (oboimáti)
      • Russian: обнима́ть (obnimátʹ); обыма́ть (obymátʹ), обойма́ть (obojmátʹ) (dialectal)
  • Old Novgorodian: обоумати (obumati) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: объимати (obŷimati), обимати (obimati), обьмати (obĭmati)
    • Bulgarian: обни́мам (obnímam), обне́мам (obnémam); оби́мам (obímam) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: објамати

    Latin script: objamati

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: objímati
    • Czech: objímat, ojímat
  • Old Polish:
    • Polish: obejmać, obimać (dialectal)
  • Old Slovak: objímať, obnímať
    • Pannonian Rusyn: обнїмац (obnjimac)
    • Slovak: objímať; obímač (dialectal)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Slovincian: wôbjimac
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wobjimać

• Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*obъjьmati/*obъjimati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 31 (*obvelčenьje – *obžьniviny), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 160