Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žьdati

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.

Inherited or (at least) based on Proto-Balto-Slavic *géistei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ-. Cognate with Lithuanian gei̇̃sti (“to desire”) (ye-present), Old Prussian gēide (“ wait”) and related to Latvian gàidît (“to wait”), Proto-West Germanic *gīdisōn (“to be greedy”).

Majer presumes origin ultimatly from a proto-medial voice *gʰidʰ-ó(r) ~ *gʰidʰ-ró(r).

*žьdàti impf

1. to wait

   Synonym: *čakati

2. to await, to expect

• *žьděti (ě/i-conjugation) (in Slovene)

• Iterative stem: *-židati

• *kъžьdo (“everyone, altogether”) (< *kъ (“interrogative particle”) + *-žьdо)
  • *kъžьdъ (“each, any”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: жьдати (žĭdati)
    • Old Ruthenian: ждати (ždati)
      • Belarusian: ждаць (ždacʹ)
      • Ukrainian: жда́ти (ždáty)
    • Russian: ждать (ždatʹ)
  • Old Pskovian: зьдати (źĭdati)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: жьдати (žĭdati)

    Glagolitic script: ⰶⱐⰴⰰⱅⰻ (žĭdati)

  • Bulgarian: жда (žda), жъда́ (žǎdá) (dialectal)
  • Slovene: ždẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ždáti
    • Czech: ždát
  • Kashubian: żdac
  • Old Polish: żdać

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ждать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “жъда, жда”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 562
• “geisti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė , 2007–2012