Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vъrčati

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.

• *vъrkati

From earlier *vъrkěti. Akin to Latin urcō and Lithuanian ur̃kioti, ur̃kti, ver̃kti.

*vъrčati

1. (intransitive) to coo?, to growl?, to grumble?, to grunt?, to snarl?

   Synonyms: *burčati, *gъrkati

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: върчати (vŭrčati), въркати (vŭrkati)
    • Old Ruthenian: ворча́ти (vorčáti), *ворка́ти (*vorkáti)
      • Belarusian: варча́ць (varčácʹ)
      • Ukrainian: ворка́ти (vorkáty)
    • Russian: ворча́ть (vorčátʹ)
• South Slavic
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Russian Church Slavonic: връчати (vrŭčati)

  • Bulgarian: върча́ (vǎrčá) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вр́чати

    Latin script: vrčati

  • Slovene: vŕčati, vŕkati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • Old Czech: vrčěti
    • Czech: vrčet, vrkat
  • Old Polish: warczeć
    • Polish: warczeć
  • Slovak: vrčať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: warcaś
    • Upper Sorbian: wórčeć

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