Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grakati

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

Compare Latin grāculus (jackdaw), English croak. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb edit

*gràkati[1]

  1. to caw, croak

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Further reading edit

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grakati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 102
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гра́кать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*grakati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 186:v. ‘caw, croak’