Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/blǫditi

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-Balto-Slavic *blándīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlondʰ-éye-ti, from *bʰlendʰ- (to blend, mix up). Cognate with Latvian bluôdîtiês (to roam, be ashamed), blàndîtiês (to roam), Lithuanian blandýtis (to clear up, become cloudy, recover, roam), Proto-Germanic *blandaną.

    Verb

    *blǭdìti impf[1][2]

    1. to err

    Inflection

    Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰlendʰ- (0 c, 8 e)

    Derived terms

    • *blǫďati (to wander)
    • *blǫdьnъ (errant)
    • *blǫdьstvo (whoredom)

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: блѫдити (blǫditi)
      • Old Novgorodian: блодити (bloditi)
    • South Slavic:
      • Old Church Slavonic:
        Old Cyrillic script: блѫдити (blǫditi)
        Glagolitic script: ⰱⰾⱘⰴⰻⱅⰻ (blǫditi)
      • Bulgarian: блъдя́ (blǎdjá)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: блудити
        Latin script: bluditi
      • Slovene: blodíti (tonal orthography)
    • West Slavic:

    Further reading

    • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*blǫditi”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 125
    • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “блъдам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 57

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*blǭdìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 47:v. (b) ‘err’
    2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “blǫdjǫ -iti”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b forføre (PR 137)