Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zębnǫti

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 *zęb- +‎ *-nǫti.

*zębnǫti

1. to suffer from cold

• *nazębnǫti, *nazęti
• *ozębnǫti, *ozęti
• *otъzębnǫti, *otъzęti, *otъzębati

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: зꙗбнꙋти (zjabnuti)
    • Belarusian: зя́бнуць (zjábnucʹ)
    • Russian: зя́бнуть (zjábnutʹ), 1sg. зя́бну (zjábnu)
    • Ukrainian: зя́бнути (zjábnuty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: зѧбнѫти (zębnǫti)

    Glagolitic: ⰸⱔⰱⱀⱘⱅⰻ (zębnǫti)

  • Bulgarian: зе́бна (zébna) (obsolete)
  • Macedonian: ѕемне (dzemne)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: zábnout
  • Polish: ziębnąć
  • Slovak: ziabnuť

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “зя́бнуть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 332
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zęti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 543
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “зя́бнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Cognate with Lithuanian žémbėti (“to germinate, to sprout”). Per Derksen, also cognate with Latin gemma (“bud, gem”) (whence English gem), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵemb-; however, Derksen notes that this root structure is impossible for a Proto-Indo-European root.

*zębnǫti

1. to germinate

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zębnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 543