Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skakati

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.

An elongated ablaut of *skokъ (“leap”) +‎ *-ati. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *skakkōną (“to shake”).

*skakàti impf (perfective *skočiti)^[1][2]

1. to hop, to leap

• *skokъ (“leap”)
• *skočiti (“to jump”)
• *kačiti (“to climb”)

• *jьzskakati (“to jump out, to pop up”)
• *podъskakati (“to hop from”)
• *nadъskakati (“to jump over”)
• *otъskakati (“to bounce”)
• *zaskakati (“to spring”)
• *naskakati (“to prance”)
• *skakalьcь (“grasshopper”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: скакати (skakati)
    • Old Ruthenian: скакати (skakati)
      • Belarusian: скака́ць (skakácʹ)
      • Ukrainian: скака́ти (skakáty)
    • Russian: скака́ть (skakátʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰽⰰⰽⰰⱅⰹ (skakati)

    Old Cyrillic script: скакати (skakati)

    • Bulgarian: ска́чам (skáčam) (from an earlier ска́кам (skákam))
    • Macedonian: скака (skaka) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ска́кати

    Latin script: skákati

  • Slovene: skakáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: skákati
    • Czech: skákat
  • Old Polish:
    • Polish: skakać
  • Old Slovak: skákať
    • Pannonian Rusyn: скакац (skakac)
    • Slovak: skákať
  • Polabian: skokat
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: skakaś
    • Upper Sorbian: skakać

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “скака́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (2002), “скачам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 6 (пỳскам – словàр²), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 736