Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orzuměvati

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

From *orzumъ (“reason, intellect”).

Verb

*orzuměvati

1. to understand

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: разоумѣвати (razuměvati)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⰰⰸⱆⰿⱑⰲⰰⱅⰻ (razuměvati)

    • → Old East Slavic: разумѣвати (razuměvati) (learned)
      • Russian: разумева́ть (razumevátʹ) (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Bulgarian: разумя́вам (razumjávam) (literary); разумѣвамъ (razuměvam) (obsolete, pre-1945 spelling); разуме̑вам (razumȇvam) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: разуме́вати, разумије́вати

    Latin script: razumévati, razumijévati

  • Slovene: razumévati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: rozumívati
  • Slovincian: rożmjêwac