Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/klěščiti

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 *klěšča +‎ *-iti.

Verb

*klěščiti[1]

  1. to squeeze?

Conjugation

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: клѣщити (klěščiti), клещити (kleščiti)
      • Old Ruthenian:
        • Belarusian: кле́шчыць (kljéščycʹ)
        • Ukrainian:
      • Russian: клещи́ть (kleščítʹ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Bulgarian:
    • Macedonian:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      • unspecified script:
      • Latin script: klijèštiti
    • Slovene: kléstiti
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*klěščiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 20

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*klěščiti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 224