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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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From thematizing of earlier *běťi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bḗˀgtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ-.
Verb
*bě̀gati impf[1][2]
- to flee
- to run
Inflection
Conjugation of
*běgati, *běga, *běgajetь (
impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)
| Verbal noun
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Infinitive
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Supine
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L-participle
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| *běganьje
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*běgati
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*běgatъ
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*běgalъ
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Participles
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| Tense
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Past
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Present
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| Passive
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*běganъ
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*běgajemъ
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| Active
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*běgavъ
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*běgaję
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Aorist
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Present
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| Person
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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1st
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2nd
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3rd
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| Singular
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*běgaxъ |
*běga |
*běga
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*běgajǫ |
*běgaješi |
*běgajetь
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| Dual
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*běgaxově |
*běgasta |
*běgaste
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*běgajevě |
*běgajeta |
*běgajete
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| Plural
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*běgaxomъ |
*běgaste |
*běgašę
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*běgajemъ |
*běgajete |
*běgajǫtь
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Imperfect
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Imperative
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| Person
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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1st |
2nd |
3rd
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| Singular
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*běgaaxъ |
*běgaaše |
*běgaaše
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*běgaji |
*běgaji
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| Dual
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*běgaaxově |
*běgaašeta |
*běgaašete
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*běgajivě |
*běgajita |
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| Plural
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*běgaaxomъ |
*běgaašete |
*běgaaxǫ
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*běgajimъ |
*běgajite |
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Descendants
- Old East Slavic: бѣгати (běgati)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: běhati
- Old Polish: biegać
- Slovak: behať
- Pomeranian:
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: běhać
- Lower Sorbian: běgaś
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бегать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*běgati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 58
- “bėgti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bě̀gati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 39: “v. (a) ‘run, flee’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “běgajǫ -ati”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 123, 133)”