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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plaviti

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 *pluti + *-iti (causative), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- and/or *pleh₃-. Per Derksen, possibly conflated into *pleh₃(w)-. Cognate with Sanskrit प्लावयति (plāvayati, to cause to float, to flood), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (frāuuaiieiti, to cause to leave), and the past-stem of Lithuanian pláuti (to wash, to rinse) (1sg. pres. pláuju, 1sg. past plóviau). Further akin to Ancient Greek πλώω (plṓō, to float, to sail), Proto-Germanic *flōaną (whence Old Norse flóa (to flow), English flow), etc.

Verb

*plàviti[1][2]

  1. to float, to sail
  2. to flood
  3. to wash, to rinse
  4. to melt

Inflection

Descendants

  • Old Church Slavonic: плавитися (plavitisja, to sail)
  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: пла́вя (plávja, to rinse) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: плави (plavi, to rinse, to wash, to flood)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пла̏вити (to flood)
      Latin: plȁviti (to flood), ploviti (to sail)
    • Slovene: plavíti (to flood, to sail, to melt) (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: plavit (to float, to bathe (horses or cattle), to scour, to navigate)
    • Polish: pławić (to bathe (horses or cattle); (archaic) to melt), spławić (to transport by water)
    • Slovak: plaviť (to float)
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пла́вить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пла̀вя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 290

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plàviti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 403:v. (a)
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “plaviti: plavjǫ plavitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a flyde (PR 133)
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