Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/klęti

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/klęti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Perhaps, related to *kloniti.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

*klęti

1. to swear
2. to curse

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: клясці́ (kljascí)
  • Russian: клясть (kljastʹ)
  • Ukrainian: кля́сти́ (kljástý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: клѧти (klęti)

    Glagolitic: ⰽⰾⱔⱅⰻ (klęti)

  • Bulgarian: кълна́ (kǎlná)
  • Macedonian: колне (kolne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: кле̑ти

    Latin: klȇti

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): kļẽti
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): klⁱẽt
    • Chakavian (Crikvenica): kljẽt
    • Chakavian (Brusje): klẽt
    • Chakavian (Kukljica): kljạ̑ti
    • Chakavian (Grobnik): kjȇt
    • Chakavian (Bibinje): klẽti
    • Chakavian (Rava island): kļḁ̑ti
    • Chakavian (Mrkoči, Batlug, Istria): klȇt
    • Chakavian (Gračišće): kliȇt
    • Chakavian (Roverija region, Istria): klȇti
    • Chakavian (Duga Resa): klêt
    • Kajkavian (Bednja): klãi̯ti
    • Kajkavian (Ozalj): klȇti
    • Kajkavian (Varaždin): klȩ̃ti
  • Slovene: kléti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kléti
    • Czech: klít
      • Moravian (Mistřice): klet
  • Slovak: kliať
  • Old Polish: kląć
    • Polish: kląć
  • Polabian: klanĕ (3sg.)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kleć
    • Lower Sorbian: klěś

Further Reading

• Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “кълна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 191