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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žerti

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 1

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gerˀtei (devour), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷérh₃-ti ~ *gʷr̥h₃-énti, from *gʷerh₃- (to devour, swallow). Cognate with Lithuanian gerti (to drink), Latvian dzer̂t (to drink). Further related to Old English acworren, Proto-Germanic *kwerraną (devour), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬭- (gar-, swallow up), Old Armenian կերի (keri, I ate), Ancient Greek βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, eat up), βορά (borá, food), Latin vorō (I devour), Sanskrit गिरति (giráti, devour).

Verb

*žèrti impf[1][2][3][4]

  1. to devour, glut
Conjugation
Alternative forms
  • *žьrati (later variant, based on present stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: жерети (žereti), жьрати (žĭrati)
      • Belarusian: жэрць (žercʹ), жэ́рці (žérci)
      • Russian: жрать (žratʹ)
      • Ukrainian: же́рти (žérty), жра́ти (žráty), жере́ти (žeréty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: пожрѣти (požrěti)
      Glagolitic script: ⱂⱁⰶⱃⱑⱅⰹ (požrěti)
    • Macedonian: ждере (ždere)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ждѐрати, ждрије̑ти, ждре̑ти
      Latin script: ždèrati, ždrijȇti, ždrȇti, (regional) nažriti
    • Slovene: žrẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: žřieti, žráti
    • Kashubian: rżéc
    • Polish: żreć
    • Silesian: żrać
    • Slovak: žrat'
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: žraś, žreś
      • Upper Sorbian: źrać, žrjeć
Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жрать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Skok, Petar (1973) “Proto-Slavic/žerti”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 673
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “же́рти”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žerti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 559
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) “gerti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 172:*žèrti
  3. Olander, Thomas (2001) “¹žerti (žьrti): žьrǫ (žerǫ) žьretь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c æde (SA 203, 235, 251; PR 139)
  4. Snoj, Marko (2016) “žrẹ́ti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:*že̋rti

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

Verb

*žerti impf

  1. Alternative form of *žьrti
Conjugation
Descendants
  • South Slavic:
Further reading
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “жрея”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 554
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