Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rějati

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *ráiˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (sometimes reconstructed as *h₃reyh₂-).

Baltic cognates include Latvian raĩdȋt (“to send hastily, urge”).

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit रीयते (rī́yate, “to flow, whirl”), रेतस् (rétas), रीति (rītí, “current, stream; motion”), रिणाति (riṇāti), Latin rīvus (“brook, small stream”). See *rìnǫti for further cognates.

*rě̀jati impf

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• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рѣꙗти (rějati)
    • Russian: ре́ять (réjatʹ, “to soar, to hover, to flutter”)
    • Ukrainian: рі́яти (ríjaty, “to swarm”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: рѣꙗти (rějati, “to push, to press”)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: ре́я (réja, “to wander, to fly”)
• West Slavic: —

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “реять”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 115
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “rě̀jati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 434
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “реять”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress