Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gaziti

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.

Proto-Slavic edit

Etymology edit

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian góžti (to overthrow, overturn, pour out), Latvian gâzt (to overthrow, overturn, pour (out))
Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit गाहते (gāhate, to penetrate, step into the water, wade)

Verb edit

*gàziti impf[1]

  1. to wade
  2. to tread, tread on, tread down

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Bulgarian: га́зя (gázja, to tread; to override, to get in trouble)[2]
    • Macedonian: гази (gazi)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: га̏зити
      Latin script: gȁziti
    • Slovene: gáziti
      • Gottscheerish: gazn

Further reading edit

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*gaziti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 113

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*gàziti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 162: “v. (a)”
  2. ^ The secondary meaning to override, to get in trouble has been related to Old Oghuric *qas- (to oppress).