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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slušati
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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.
Verb
*slùšati impf[1][2]
- to listen
Inflection
Conjugation of *slušati, *sluša, *slušajetь (impf., -ě-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)
Suffix: *-ěti
| 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
- *slùxati (“to listen”)
- *slỳšati (“to hear”)
- *sluti (“to be called”)
- *slàva (“glory, fame”)
- *slȍvo (“word”)
- *slȗxъ (“hearing, rumor”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: слꙋшати (slušati)
- Belarusian: слу́хаць (slúxacʹ)
- Russian: слу́шать (slúšatʹ)
- Old East Slavic: слꙋшати (slušati)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: слоушати (slušati)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: слу́шам (slúšam)
- Macedonian: слуша (sluša)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слу̏шати
- Latin: slȕšati
- Chakavian (Vrgada?): slȕšati
- Slovene: slúšati (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: slušet
- Old Polish: słuszać, słuszeć
- Slovak: slušať
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: słušeć
- Lower Sorbian: słušaś
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “слу́шать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- 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 slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*slűšati”