Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫditi

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.

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pond-éye-ti, causative/iterative from *(s)pend- (“to stretch”). Cognate with Lithuanian spándyti (“to stretch”), German spannen (“to stretch”), Lithuanian spą́stas (“traps”), spę́sti (“to set traps”) (1sg. spéndžiu), Latvian spôsts (“trap, snare”).

*pǫditi

1. to chase

• *pę̑dь

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пꙋдити (puditi)
    • Belarusian: пу́дзіць (púdzicʹ)
    • Russian: пу́дить (púditʹ), пуди́ть (pudítʹ, “to scare, to chase”), пужать, пугать
    • Ukrainian: пу́дити (púdyty), 1sg. пу́джу (púdžu)
• South Slavic:
  • Middle Bulgarian: пѫдити (pǫditi, “to push, to chase”) (14th century)
    • Bulgarian: пъ́дя (pǎ́dja)
  • Macedonian: пади (padi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу́дити (“to chase”)

    Latin script: púditi (“to chase”)

  • Slovene: podíti (“to chase”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. podím (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pudit (“to induce, to impel”)
  • Polish: pędzić (“to chase”)
  • Slovak: pudiť

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pǫditi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 427
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пу́ди́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress