Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/striťi

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-Indo-European *streyg-. Cognate with Latin stringere (“to skim, to scratch”), Old English strīcan (“to rub, to wander, to brush past”).

*striťi impf

1. to cut (hair, fleece, grass), to shear
2. to slip

• *strižьka (“haircut, hairdo”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стричи (striči)
    • Belarusian: стры́гчы (strýhčy)
    • Russian: стричь (stričʹ)
    • Ukrainian: стри́гти (strýhty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: стрищи (strišti)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⱅⱃⰻⱋⰻ (strišti)

  • Bulgarian: стри́жа (stríža)
  • Macedonian: стриже (striže)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: стри̏ћи

    Latin script: strȉći

  • Slovene: stríči (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: strzic, strzëgac
  • Old Czech: střieci, stříci, střežiti, střihati, střiehati
    • Czech: stříci, střežit, střihat, stříhat
  • Polabian: straizăt
  • Old Polish: strzyc
    • Polish: strzyc
  • Slovak: strihať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: třihać
    • Lower Sorbian: stśigaś

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стригу́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress