Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/roditi

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 *radeitei / *radi-. Cognate with Latvian radît (“to give birth to, to create”). Further connections unclear:

• Derksen doesn't see any obvious connections outside of Balto-Slavic.
• Rix (LIV) reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *(H)rodʰ-eye-ti, a causative from a putative root *(H)rodʰ-.
• Connections with Sanskrit वर्धते (várdhate, “to grow, to thrive”) are often suggested as well, although these are formally difficult because irregular loss of *-w- must occur.

*rodìti

1. to give birth, to bear

• *nāròdъ (“people”)
• *rȏdъ (“birth, origin, family, yield”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: родити (roditi)
    • Belarusian: радзі́ць (radzícʹ)
    • Russian: роди́ть (rodítʹ)
    • Ukrainian: роди́ти (rodýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: родити (roditi)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: родя́ (rodjá)
  • Macedonian: роди (rodi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ро̀дити

    Latin: ròditi

  • Slovene: rodíti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: roditi
    • Czech: rodit
  • Polabian: rüdait
  • Polish: rodzić
  • Slovak: rodiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: rodźić
    • Lower Sorbian: raźiś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “роди́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “рожа́ть”, 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 119
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN

See *raditi.

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*roditi

1. to care about, to heed

• *raditi (“to care about, to heed”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: родити (roditi, “to care about”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: неродити (neroditi, “to not care about, to not heed”), 1sg. нерождѫ (neroždǫ)

  • Bulgarian: родя́ (rodjá, “to care about, to observe”)
  • Slovene: róditi (“to care about, to observe”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. rọ́dim (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: neroditi (“to not care about”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: rodźić (“to want, to strive”), dialectal rodźeć
    • Lower Sorbian: roźeś (“to want, to strive”)