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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/laziti

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 *loh₁ǵ-ey-, causative/iterative of *leh₁ǵ-. Cognate with Latvian lẽzêt (“to slide”), Old Prussian līse (“(he) crawls”, 3sg.), Old Norse lágr (“low”), English low.

Verb

*làziti[1][2]

  1. to creep, to crawl

Inflection
Conjugation of *laziti, *lazi, *lazitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
Verbal noun Infinitive Supine L-participle
*laženьje *laziti *lazitъ *lazilъ
Participles
Tense Past Present
Passive *laženъ *lazimъ
Active *lažь *lazę
Aorist Present
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Singular *lazixъ*lazi*lazi *lažǫ*laziši*lazitь
Dual *lazixově*lazista*laziste *lazivě*lazita*lazite
Plural *lazixomъ*laziste*lazišę *lazimъ*lazite*lazętь
Imperfect Imperative
Person 1st2nd3rd 1st2nd3rd
Singular *lažaaxъ*lažaaše*lažaaše —*lazi*lazi
Dual *lažaaxově*lažaašeta*lažaašete *lazivě*lazita—
Plural *lažaaxomъ*lažaašete*lažaaxǫ *lazimъ*lazite—
    Notes:
  • (*)*lazivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
  • *lě̀zti (“to creep, to crawl”)
  • *lazъ (“plowed field? narrow passage?”)
  • *lazivo (“ladder”)
  • *lazidlo (“ladder”)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: лазити (laziti)
    • Old Novgorodian: ла́ꙁити (láziti)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: lazit
    • Polabian: lozĕ
    • Old Polish: łazić
    • Slovak: laziť
    • Slovincian: lazëc
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: łazyć
      • Lower Sorbian: łazyś

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ла́зить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “лезть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 474
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*laziti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 64

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*làziti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 269: “v. (a) ‘crawl, creep’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “laziti: lazjǫ lazitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a klatre (PR 133)”
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