Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pleskati

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.

• *plěskati. Note, some descendants stem from that form.

Onomatopoeic.

*pleskati

1. to splash, to slap

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: плескати (pleskati)
    • Old Ruthenian: плескати (pleskati), плꙗскати (pljaskati)}
      • Belarusian: пле́скаць (pljéskacʹ), плёскаць (pljóskacʹ), пля́скаць (pljáskacʹ)
      • Ukrainian: плеска́ти (pleskáty)
    • Russian: плеска́ть (pleskátʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⰾⰵⱄⰽⰰⱅⰻ (pleskati)

    Old Cyrillic script: плескати (pleskati)

    • Bulgarian: пля́скам (pljáskam)
    • Macedonian: плеска (pleska)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пље̏скати

    Latin script: pljȅskati

  • Slovene: pleskáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pleskati
    • Czech: pleskat
  • Polish: pleskać (dialectal)
  • Slovak: рliеskаť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: plaskaś
    • Upper Sorbian: pleskać

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плеска́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “пле́скаць”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka