Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zěvati

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.

Cognates include Lithuanian žióvauti, Latvian žàvât, Old High German giwēn, gewōn. See *zijati for more cognates.

*zěvàti

1. to yawn

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: зѣвати (zěvati)
    • Old Ruthenian: зѣва́ти (zěváti)
      • Belarusian: зява́ць (zjavácʹ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: зїва́ти (zjiváty)
      • Ukrainian: зіва́ти (ziváty)
    • Russian: зева́ть (zevátʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: зѣвати (zěvati)

    • ⇒ Bulgarian: прозя̀вам (prozjàvam)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зѐвати

    Latin: zèvati

  • Slovene: zẹ́vati (tonal orthography), 1sg. zẹ́vam (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: zewiac
  • Old Czech: zievati
    • Czech: zívat
  • Old Polish: dziewać, ziewać
    • Polish: ziewać
    • Silesian: ziywać
  • Polabian: *zevăt (attested in 3sg. "zevă" or "zevĕ")
  • Slovak: zívať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: zywać

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 542
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “зевать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress