Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grajati

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 *grāˀ-, *grāˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (to cry hoarsely). Cognate with Lithuanian gróti (to caw, to croak, to howl, to roar, to scold) (1sg. gróju; also grióti, 1sg. grióju), Old High German krāen (to crow).

    Verb

    *grajati impf[1]

    1. to caw, to croak

    Inflection

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: граꙗти (grajati)
    • South Slavic:
      • Bulgarian: гра́я (grája) (dialectal)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: гра̏јати, гра́јати
        Latin: grȁjati, grájati
      • Slovene: grājati (tonal orthography)
    • West Slavic:

    Further reading

    • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grajati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 101
    • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “гра́ять”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*grajati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 185:v. ‘caw, croak’