< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zabyti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *za + *bỳti (“to be”).
Verb
*zabỳti impf
- to forget
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: забꙑ́ти (zabýti)
- Old Ruthenian: забы́ти (zabýti)
- Belarusian: забы́ць (zabýcʹ)
- Rusyn: забы́ти (zabŷ́ty)
- Ukrainian: забу́ти (zabúty)
- Middle Russian: забы́ти (zabýti)
- Russian: забы́ть (zabýtʹ)
- Old Ruthenian: забы́ти (zabýti)
- Old East Slavic: забꙑ́ти (zabýti)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: забꙑти (zabyti)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за̀бити
- Latin: zàbiti
- Slovene: záabiti
- West Slavic:
- Czech: zabýti
- Old Polish: zabyć
- Polish: zabyć (obsolete)
- Polabian: zobål sg
- Slovak: zabyť
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: zabyś
- Upper Sorbian: zabyć
Further reading
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “забу́ти(ся)”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 215
- Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1985), “забы́ць”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volume 3 (га! – інчэ́), Minsk: Navuka i technika