Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xromiti

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

By surface analysis, *xromъ +‎ *-iti.

Verb

*xromiti[1]

  1. to cripple

Conjugation

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: хроми́ть (xromítʹ) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian: (rare)
      • Latin script: hromiti
    • Slovene: hromīti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: chromiti
      • Czech: chromit
    • Old Polish: chromić
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: chromiś
      • Upper Sorbian: chromić

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xromiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 100