Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prętati

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.

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*prętati

1. (transitive) to bury?, to conceal?, to hide?, to tidy?

   Synonyms: *krỳti, *xovati, *zakopati

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: прѧтати (prętati)
    • Old Ruthenian: прѧ́тати (prjátati), пра́тати (prátati)
      • Belarusian: пра́таць (prátacʹ)
      • Ukrainian: пря́тати (prjátaty) (dialectal)
    • Russian: пря́тать (prjátatʹ)
    • ⇒ Old East Slavic: съпрѧтати (sŭprętati)
      • Russian: спря́тать (sprjátatʹ)
• South Slavic
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: прѩтати (prjętati)

  • ⇒ Bulgarian: опре́там (oprétam), запре́твам (zaprétvam), спре́тнат (sprétnat)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: за́прета (zápreta, “to bury, cover, hide”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пре̏тати

    Latin script: prȅtati

  • ⇒ Slovene: spгẹ́tən (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • ⇒ Polish: oprzątać, sprzątać
  • Slovak: pratať, pratať sa

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пря́тать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress