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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/blьščati

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 earlier *blьskěti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bliskēˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰliǵ-sk-eh₁-ti, from *bʰel- (to shine). Baltic cognates include Lithuanian blizgėti.

Verb

*blьščati impf[1]

  1. to shine

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic: блисцати (bliscati)
    • Russian: блесте́ть (blestétʹ) (reanalyzed)
    • Ukrainian: блищати (blyščaty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: бльштати (blĭštati)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: блестя (blestja) (reanalyzed)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: блијештати
      Latin script: blijéštati
    • Slovene: bléščati
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*blьščati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 48:v. ‘shine’
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