Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/odolěti

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.

• *obdolěti

From *ob- + Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁-, from the root *delh₁- (“to split”). Cognate with Lithuanian dalýti (“to share”), Latvian dalît (“to share”), Old Prussian dellieis (“share!”, imperative), Latin dolō (“to fashion, to work (wood)”). Per Derksen and Vasmer, the semantic development was split > share > get one's share > win > overcome.

*odolě̀ti

1. to overcome, to defeat

• *delěti (“to overcome, prevail”)
• *doľa (“share, fate”)
• *odolěnъ (“valerian”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: одолѣти (odolěti)
    • Belarusian: адо́лець (adóljecʹ)
    • Russian: одоле́ть (odolétʹ, “to overcome, to conquer”), 1sg. одоле́ю (odoléju)
      • → Bulgarian: одоле́я (odoléja, “to overcome”)
    • Ukrainian: одолі́ти (odolíty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: одолѣти (odolěti), 1sg. одолѣѭ (odolějǫ)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Macedonian: одолее (odolee, “to overcome”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: одо̀љети (“to overcome, to withstand”), 1sg. о̀долӣм

    Latin script: odòljeti (“to overcome, to withstand”), 1sg. òdolīm

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): odolȉti (“to overcome, to withstand”)
  • Slovene: odolẹ́ti (“to overcome, to defeat”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: odolati, udolati (“to endure, to bear on one's shoulders”))
    • Czech: odoleti (“to resist, to withstand”) (archaic; Kott's dictionary)
  • Polish: podołać (“to cope, to manage, to be up, to be equal to”)); (zdołać (“to be able”))
  • Slovak: odolieť (“to resist, to defend oneself”) (dialectal)

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*odolě̀ti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 363
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “одоле́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*obdolěti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 161