Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slušati

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 earlier *sluxěti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *klauˀs-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlows-, from *ḱlew-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian kláusti (“to ask”), klausýti (“to listen”), 3sg. klaũso, Old Prussian klausiton (“to hear”), klausēmai (“I listen”). Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit श्रोषति (śróṣati, “to listen, to obey”), Old Irish clúas (“hearing, ear”), Old High German hlosēn (“to listen”), English listen, loud, etc. Derksen asserts that the initial *s- (vs. Baltic initial *k-) was adopted from related words with e-grade vocalism, where it would be expected.^[1]

Verb

*slùšati impf^[1]^[2]

to listen

Inflection

Conjugation of *slušati, *sluša, *slušajetь (impf., -ě-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*slušanьje	*slušati	*slušatъ	*slušalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*slušanъ	*slušajemъ
Active	*slušavъ	*slušaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*slušaxъ	*sluša	*sluša	*slušajǫ	*slušaješi	*slušajetь
Dual	*slušaxově	*slušasta	*slušaste	*slušajevě	*slušajeta	*slušajete
Plural	*slušaxomъ	*slušaste	*slušašę	*slušajemъ	*slušajete	*slušajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*slušaaxъ	*slušaaše	*slušaaše	—	*slušaji	*slušaji
Dual	*slušaaxově	*slušaašeta	*slušaašete	*slušajivě	*slušajita	—
Plural	*slušaaxomъ	*slušaašete	*slušaaxǫ	*slušajimъ	*slušajite	—

Related terms

*sluti (“to be called”)
*slàva (“glory, fame”)
*slùxati (“to listen”)
*slȍvo (“word”)
*slȗxъ (“hearing, rumor”)
*slỳšati (“to hear”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: слушати (slušati)
  - Russian: слу́шать (slúšatʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: слоушати (slušati)
  
  Glagolitic script: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: слу́шам (slúšam)
- Macedonian: слуша (sluša)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: слу̏шати
  
  Latin script: slȕšati
- Slovene: slúšati (tonal orthography) (archaic)
  - ⇒ Slovene: poslúšati (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: slušěti
  - Czech: slušet
- Old Polish: słuszać, słuszeć
- Slovak: slušať
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: słušeć
  - Lower Sorbian: słušaś

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*slùšati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 455: “v. (a) ‘listen’”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “slúšati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*slűšati”