Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/perživati

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 *per- +‎ *živati.

*perživati impf

1. to munch, (for ruminants) to regurgitate (already swallowed food for additional chewing)

• *žuti, *žьvati (“to chew”)
• *žuna, *žuka (“buccal cavity”)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: прѣживати (prěživati)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⱑⰶⰻⰲⰰⱅⰻ (prěživati)

  • Bulgarian: прежи́вям (prežívjam)
  • Macedonian: прежива (preživa)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: прежи́вати

    Latin script: prežívati

  • Slovene: prežívati (tonal orthography), dialectally: prežə́vati
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: přěžívati
    • Czech:
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): přežívat

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “преживям”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 646