Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plaviti

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 *pluti +‎ *-iti (causative), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- and/or *pleh₃-. Per Derksen, possibly conflated into *pleh₃(w)-. Cognate with Sanskrit प्लावयति (plāvayati, “to cause to float, to flood”), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (frāuuaiieⁱti, “to cause to leave”), and the past-stem of Lithuanian pláuti (“to wash, to rinse”) (1sg. pres. pláuju, 1sg. past plóviau). Further akin to Ancient Greek πλώω (plṓō, “to float, to sail”), Proto-Germanic *flōaną (whence Old Norse flóa (“to flow”), English flow), etc.

*plàviti^[1][2]

1. to float, to sail
2. to flood
3. to wash, to rinse
4. to melt

• Old Church Slavonic: плавитися (plavitisja, “to sail”)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: пла́вить (plávitʹ, “to melt”)
  • Ukrainian: плавити (plavyty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пла́вя (plávja, “to rinse”) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: плави (plavi, “to rinse, to wash, to flood”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пла̏вити (“to flood”)

    Latin: plȁviti (“to flood”), ploviti (“to sail”)

  • Slovene: plavíti (“to flood, to sail, to melt”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: plavit (“to float, to bathe (horses or cattle), to scour, to navigate”)
  • Polish: pławić (“to bathe (horses or cattle); (archaic) to melt”), spławić (“to transport by water”)
  • Slovak: plaviť (“to float”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pławić
    • Lower Sorbian: pławiś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пла́вить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пла̀вя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 290