Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvatati

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 *xvatiti +‎ *-ati.

*xvatati impf

1. to grasp, catch, grab

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: хватити (xvatiti)
    • Belarusian: хвата́ць (xvatácʹ)
    • Russian: хвата́ть (xvatátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: хвата́ти (xvatáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: хватати (xvatati)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: хва́щам (hváštam) хва́тя (hvátja) (archaic, dialectal)
  • Macedonian: фа́ќа (fáḱa)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хва̏тати

    Latin script: hvȁtati

  • Slovene: hvátati
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: chvátati
    • Czech: chvátat
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): chvátat
  • Polish: chwatać, chwytać (mutual contamination with "chycić", current "chwycić")
  • Slovak: сhvátаť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: chwatać
    • Lower Sorbian: chwataś

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