Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvatiti

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.

Causative counterpart to *xvatъ (“grip”) +‎ *-iti.

*xvatiti

1. to grasp, to grab, to catch

• *xvatati
• *xytiti (“to snatch”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: хватити (xvatiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: хвати́ти (xvatíti)
      • Belarusian: хваці́ць (xvacícʹ)
      • Ukrainian: хвати́ти (xvatýty)
    • Russian: хвати́ть (xvatítʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: хватити (xvatiti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱈⰲⰰⱅⰺⱅⰺ (xvatiti)

  • Bulgarian: хва́щам (hváštam), хва́тя (hvátja) (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Macedonian: фати (fati)
  • Slovene: hvátiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chvátit (literary)
  • Polish: chwacić (obsolete)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: khwóćić
    • Lower Sorbian: chwaśyś (obsolete)

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*хvаtiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 123
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хвати́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress