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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 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]
- to creep, to crawl
Inflection
Conjugation of *laziti, *lazi, *lazitь (?, -i-, 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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| *laženьje
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*laziti
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*lazitъ
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*lazilъ
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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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*laženъ
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*lazimъ
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| Active
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*lažь
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*lazę
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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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*lazixъ |
*lazi |
*lazi
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*lažǫ |
*laziši |
*lazitь
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| Dual
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*lazixově |
*lazista |
*laziste
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*lazivě |
*lazita |
*lazite
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| Plural
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*lazixomъ |
*laziste |
*lazišę
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*lazimъ |
*lazite |
*lazętь
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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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*lažaaxъ |
*lažaaše |
*lažaaše
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*lazi |
*lazi
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| Dual
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*lažaaxově |
*lažaašeta |
*lažaašete
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*lazivě |
*lazita |
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| Plural
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*lažaaxomъ |
*lažaašete |
*lažaaxǫ
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*lazimъ |
*lazite |
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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:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: лазити (laziti)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: ла́зя (lázja)
- Macedonian: лази (lazi)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ла̏зити
- Latin script: lȁziti
- Slovene: láziti (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: laziti
- 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. (1999) “лезть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 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
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*làziti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269: “v. (a) ‘crawl, creep’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “laziti: lazjǫ lazitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a klatre (PR 133)”