Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glumiti

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

Denominative verb from *glumъ, *gluma (“mockery? amusement? joke?”) + *-iti, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlow-m-, from the root *gʰlew-. Cognate with Old Norse glaumr (“jubilation”), gleyma (“to forget, to jubilate, to make merry”), Old English glēam (“jubilation, joy”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, mockery”), χλευάζω (khleuázō, “to joke”), Lithuanian glaudas, glauda (“fun”) (Daouksha's dictionary), gláudoti (“to joke”), Latvian glaudât (“to joke”).

Verb

*glumiti impf

1. to mock? to amuse? to joke?

Inflection

Conjugation of *glumiti, *glumi, *glumitь (impf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*glumľenьje	*glumiti	*glumitъ	*glumilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*glumľenъ	*glumimъ
Active	*glumľь	*glumę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*glumixъ	*glumi	*glumi	*glumľǫ	*glumiši	*glumitь
Dual	*glumixově	*glumista	*glumiste	*glumivě	*glumita	*glumite
Plural	*glumixomъ	*glumiste	*glumišę	*glumimъ	*glumite	*glumętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*glumľaaxъ	*glumľaaše	*glumľaaše	—	*glumi	*glumi
Dual	*glumľaaxově	*glumľaašeta	*glumľaašete	*glumivě	*glumita	—
Plural	*glumľaaxomъ	*glumľaašete	*glumľaaxǫ	*glumimъ	*glumite	—

Notes:
• (*)*glumivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

• *glumъ, *gluma (“mockery? amusement? joke?”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: глумити (glumiti)
    • Old Ruthenian: глумити (hlumiti)
      • Belarusian: глумі́ць (hlumícʹ)
      • Ukrainian: глуми́ти (hlumýty)
    • Russian: глуми́ться (glumítʹsja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: глоумити (glumiti)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: глумя́ (glumjá)
  • Macedonian: глуми (glumi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: глу́мити

    Latin script: glúmiti

  • Slovene: glūmiti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: głumić (dialectal)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: glumi

Further reading

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “глуми́ться”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 192
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glumiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 148
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глум”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress