Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plavati

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

Per Vasmer, formed from *plàviti on the basis of the common iterative suffix *-vati. See *plàviti for etymology.

Verb edit

*plàvati[1]

  1. to swim
  2. to float
  3. to sail

Inflection edit

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Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*plàvati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 403