Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/badati

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

Etymology

Lengthened grade of *bosti +‎ *-ati from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to pierce”). Akin to Latvian badît, Lithuanian badýti.

Verb

*bādàti impf

1. to prick

Conjugation

Conjugation of *badati, *bada, *badajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*badanьje	*badati	*badatъ	*badalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*badanъ	*badajemъ
Active	*badavъ	*badaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*badaxъ	*bada	*bada	*badajǫ	*badaješi	*badajetь
Dual	*badaxově	*badasta	*badaste	*badajevě	*badajeta	*badajete
Plural	*badaxomъ	*badaste	*badašę	*badajemъ	*badajete	*badajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*badaaxъ	*badaaše	*badaaše	—	*badaji	*badaji
Dual	*badaaxově	*badaašeta	*badaašete	*badajivě	*badajita	—
Plural	*badaaxomъ	*badaašete	*badaaxǫ	*badajimъ	*badajite	—

Derived terms

• *badъ (“puncture, stabbing”)
• *badakati

Related terms

• *bodъľь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бадати (badati)
    • Ukrainian: бадати (badaty), бада́ты (badáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бадàкам (badàkam, “to sew carefully, to work slowly”) (extended with *-kati)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: уба́дати

    Latin script: ubádati

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bádat
  • Old Polish: badać
    • Polish: badać
    • Silesian: badać
  • Slovak: bádať
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: badac
    • Slovincian: badac
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: badaś

Further reading

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бадакам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 26