Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prędati

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 Proto-Indo-European *(s)prend-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”) (whence Old Norse spretta).

Verb

*prę̀dati

1. to jump, to leap
2. to step gently

Conjugation

Conjugation of *prędati, *pręda, *prędajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*prędanьje	*prędati	*prędatъ	*prędalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*prędanъ	*prędajemъ
Active	*prędavъ	*prędaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*prędaxъ	*pręda	*pręda	*prędajǫ	*prędaješi	*prędajetь
Dual	*prędaxově	*prędasta	*prędaste	*prędajevě	*prędajeta	*prędajete
Plural	*prędaxomъ	*prędaste	*prędašę	*prędajemъ	*prędajete	*prędajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*prędaaxъ	*prędaaše	*prędaaše	—	*prędaji	*prędaji
Dual	*prędaaxově	*prędaašeta	*prędaašete	*prędajivě	*prędajita	—
Plural	*prędaaxomъ	*prędaašete	*prędaaxǫ	*prędajimъ	*prędajite	—

Derived terms

• *prę̀dnǫti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Russian: пря́дать (prjádatʹ) (dated, regional)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: преда́ (predá); пре́ндам (préndam), пре́нда (prénda) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пре̏дати

    Latin script: prȅdati

  • Slovene: predáti (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пря́дать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “преда”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 634