Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slušati

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 earlier *sluxěti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *klauˀs-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlows-, from *ḱlew-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian kláusti (“to ask”), klausýti (“to listen”), 3sg. klaũso, Old Prussian klausiton (“to hear”), klausēmai (“I listen”). Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit श्रोषति (śróṣati, “to listen, to obey”), Old Irish clúas (“hearing, ear”), Old High German hlosēn (“to listen”), English listen, loud, etc. Derksen asserts that the initial *s- (vs. Baltic initial *k-) was adopted from related words with e-grade vocalism, where it would be expected.

*slùšati impf^[1][2]

1. to listen

• *slùxati (“to listen”)
• *slỳšati (“to hear”)
• *sluti (“to be called”)
• *slàva (“glory, fame”)
• *slȍvo (“word”)
• *slȗxъ (“hearing, rumor”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: слушати (slušati)
    • Russian: слу́шать (slúšatʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: слоушати (slušati)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Bulgarian: слу́шам (slúšam)
  • Macedonian: слуша (sluša)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: слу̏шати

    Latin script: slȕšati

  • Slovene: slúšati (tonal orthography) (archaic)
    • ⇒ Slovene: poslúšati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: slušěti
    • Czech: slušet
  • Old Polish: słuszać, słuszeć
  • Slovak: slušať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: słušeć
    • Lower Sorbian: słušaś

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