Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/klęti

Perhaps, related to *kloniti.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

*klęti

1. to swear
2. to curse

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: клясці́ (kljascí)
  • Russian: клясть (kljastʹ)
  • Ukrainian: кля́сти́ (kljástý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: клѧти (klęti)

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⰾⱔⱅⰻ (klęti)

  • Bulgarian: кълна́ (kǎlná)
  • Macedonian: колне (kolne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кле̑ти

    Latin script: klȇti

  • Slovene: kléti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kléti
    • Czech: klít
  • Polabian: klanĕ (3sg.)
  • Old Polish: kląć
    • Polish: kląć
  • Slovak: kliať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kleć
    • Lower Sorbian: klěś

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кълна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 191