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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/laziti
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *loh₁ǵ-ey-, causative/iterative of *leh₁ǵ-. Cognate with Latvian lẽzêt (“to slide”), Old Prussian līse (“(he) crawls”, 3sg.), Old Norse lágr (“low”), English low.
Verb
*làziti[1][2]
- to creep, to crawl
Inflection
Conjugation of *laziti, *lazi, *lazitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *laženьje | *laziti | *lazitъ | *lazilъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *laženъ | *lazimъ |
| Active | *lažь | *lazę |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *lazixъ | *lazi | *lazi | *lažǫ | *laziši | *lazitь |
| Dual | *lazixově | *lazista | *laziste | *lazivě | *lazita | *lazite |
| Plural | *lazixomъ | *laziste | *lazišę | *lazimъ | *lazite | *lazętь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *lažaaxъ | *lažaaše | *lažaaše | — | *lazi | *lazi |
| Dual | *lažaaxově | *lažaašeta | *lažaašete | *lazivě | *lazita | — |
| Plural | *lažaaxomъ | *lažaašete | *lažaaxǫ | *lazimъ | *lazite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*lazivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Related terms
- *lě̀zti (“to creep, to crawl”)
- *lazъ (“plowed field? narrow passage?”)
- *lazivo (“ladder”)
- *lazidlo (“ladder”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: лазити (laziti)
- Belarusian: ла́зіць (lázicʹ)
- Russian: ла́зить (lázitʹ)
- Ukrainian: ла́зити (lázyty)
- Old Novgorodian: ла́ꙁити (láziti)
- Old East Slavic: лазити (laziti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: лазити (laziti)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: ла́зя (lázja)
- Macedonian: лази (lazi)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ла̏зити
- Latin: lȁziti
- Slovene: láziti (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: lazit
- Polabian: lozĕ
- Old Polish: łazić
- Polish: łazić
- Slovak: laziť
- Slovincian: ḷãzĕc
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: łazyć
- Lower Sorbian: łazyś
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ла́зить”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “лезть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 474
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*laziti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 64
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*làziti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269: “v. (a) ‘crawl, creep’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “laziti: lazjǫ lazitь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a klatre (PR 133)”