Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/groxotъ

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

Compare Lithuanian grekšėti (“to creak”), Old High German krahhon (“to crash”), further Lithuanian girgždėti and Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to thunder”).

Some scholars, (Mladenov), argue for an onomatopoeic origin.

Noun

*groxotъ m

1. rumble, thud

Inflection

Declension of *groxotъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*groxotъ	*groxota	*groxoti
genitive	*groxota	*groxotu	*groxotъ
dative	*groxotu	*groxotoma	*groxotomъ
accusative	*groxotъ	*groxota	*groxoty
instrumental	*groxotъmь, *groxotomь*	*groxotoma	*groxoty
locative	*groxotě	*groxotu	*groxotěxъ
vocative	*groxote	*groxota	*groxoti

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: гро́хот (gróxot)
  • Ukrainian: гро́хiт (hróxit)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: грохотъ (groxotŭ)

  • Bulgarian: гро́хот (gróhot)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гро̏хот

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hrochot (obsolete)
  • Polish: grochot

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гро́хот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress