Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/služiti

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 *slūgà (“servant”) +‎ *-iti.

*služìti^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

1. to serve

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: служи́ти (služíti)
    • Old Ruthenian: служи́ти (služíti)
      • Belarusian: служы́ць (služýcʹ)
      • Ukrainian: служи́ти (služýty)
    • Middle Russian: служи́ти (služíti)
      • Russian: служи́ть (služítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: слоужити (služiti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰾⱆⰶⰻⱅⰻ (služiti)

  • Bulgarian: слу́жа (slúža)
  • Macedonian: служи (služi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: слу́жити

    Latin script: slúžiti

  • Slovene: slúžiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: slúžiti
    • Czech: sloužit
  • Polabian: *slauzĕt, slauzĕ
  • Old Polish: służyć
    • Polish: służyć
    • Silesian: sużyć
  • Slovak: slúžiť
  • Slovincian:
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: służëc
    • Slovincian: slëżëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: słužyś
    • Upper Sorbian: słužić

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “служить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Zaliznyak, Andrey A. (2019) “служи́ти”, in Древнерусское ударение: Общие сведения и словарь [Old East Slavic accent: General Information and Dictionary] (in Russian), 2nd, expanded and revised edition, Moscow: Publishing House “YASK”, →DOI, →ISBN, page 344