Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oběťati

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

Alternative forms

  • *obvěťati (Trubachev (ESSJa))
  • *obvětati (Trubachev (ESSJa))

Etymology

From *ob- +‎ *věťati.

Verb

*oběťati

  1. to promise, to pledge

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: обѣчати (oběčati)
      • Old Ruthenian: обѣчати (oběčati)
      • Russian: обеча́ть (obečátʹ), обвеча́ть (obvečátʹ) (Northern dialectal); обвича́ть (obvičátʹ) (Arkhangelsk)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Glagolitic script: ⱁⰱⱑⱋⰰⱅⰻ (oběštati)
      Old Cyrillic script: обѣщати (oběštati)
      • Bulgarian: обеща́я (obeštája)
      • Old East Slavic: обѣщати (oběščati)
        • Old Ruthenian: обѣщати (oběščati)
        • Russian: обеща́ть (obeščátʹ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: обѐћати
      Latin script: obèćati
    • Slovene: obẹ́čati (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Lechitic:
    • Old Czech: oběcěti
      • Czech: oběcati (archaic); oběcet (dialectal)
    • Old Slovak: obecať
      • Slovak: obecať

References

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “обе́т”, 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 584
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*obětjati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 361
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “обеща́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*obvět(j)ati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 31 (*obvelčenьje – *obžьniviny), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 31
  • Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1978), “абяца́ць”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 1 (А – бячэ́йка), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 67