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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъrkati

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

  • ЭССЯ: Onomatopoeic.
  • Derksen: cognate with Latin graculus (daw, jackdaw).
  • Vasmer: onomatopoeia like in Sanskrit घुर्घुर (ghurghura, growling).

Verb

*gъrkati impf[1]

  1. to coo

Conjugation

See also

  • *grakati (to caw, croak)
  • *grajati (to caw, croak)
  • *gъrgati
  • *gъrgotati

Descendants

  • Church Slavonic: гъркати (gŭrkati) (Russian)
  • East Slavic: гъркати (gŭrkati)
    • Belarusian: гы́ркаць (hýrkacʹ), dial. гарка́ць (harkácʹ)
    • Russian: горкота́ть (gorkotátʹ), dial. го́ркать (górkatʹ), га́ркать (gárkatʹ), гу́ркать (gúrkatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: га́ркати (hárkaty), гу́ркати (húrkaty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: гръ́камъ (grǎ́kam)
    • Macedonian: грака (graka)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: гркати, грцати
      Latin: grkati, grcati
    • Slovene: grkati
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: hrkat, hrcat, dial. gŕacať, grcat
    • Slovak: hrkať, dial. grcať, grcaťi

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*gъrkati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198: “v. ‘coo’”
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