Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tręsti

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.

Per Vasmer, Rix (LIV) and Chernykh, a contamination of Proto-Indo-European *trem- and *tres-:

• *trem- produces Lithuanian trìmti (“to shiver with cold”), 1sg. trimù, Lithuanian trémti (“to knock over”), 1sg. tremiù, Latin tremō (“to shiver”), inf. tremere, Ancient Greek τρέμω (trémō, “to shiver”), Tocharian A träm- (“to shiver”), Tocharian B tremem (“trepidation”), Albanian trëmp (“to get frightened”) (Tosk), trem (“to get frightened”) (Gheg), Old Saxon thrimman (“to jump”).
• *tres- produces Sanskrit त्रसति (trásati, “to shiver”), Avestan 𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (tər^əsaⁱti, “to tremble”), Ancient Greek τρέω (tréō, “to tremble”), aorist τρέσσαι (tréssai).

*tręstì

1. (transitive) to shake

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: трясти (trjasti)
    • Belarusian: трэ́сці (trésci)
    • Russian: трясти́ (trjastí)
    • Ukrainian: трясти́ (trjastý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: трѧсти (tręsti)

    Glagolitic: ⱅⱃⱔⱄⱅⰻ (tręsti)

  • Bulgarian: треса́ (tresá)
  • Macedonian: тресе (trese)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тре́сти

    Latin script: trésti

  • Slovene: trẹ́sti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: trzisc
  • Old Czech: třiesti
    • Czech: třást
  • Old Polish: trząść
    • Polish: trząść
  • Slovak: triasť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: třasć
    • Lower Sorbian: tśěsć

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 497
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “трясу́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “трясти́”, 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 268
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 651