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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zvizdati

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *sweysd- (to hiss). Compare Latin sibilus (hissing, whistling), Hindi सीटी (sīṭī, whistle), Ancient Greek σίζω (sízō, to hiss).

Verb

*zvizdati impf (perfective *zviznǫti)[1][2]

  1. to whistle

Conjugation

Derived terms

nouns

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: звиздати (zvizdati)
  • South Slavic:
    • Church Slavonic: звиздати (zvizdati)
    • Bulgarian: зви́здя (zvízdja) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: ѕвизди (dzvizdi) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)
      Cyrillic script: звѝздати
      Latin script: zvìzdati
    • Slovene: zvízdati (tonal orthography)

From dialectal variant *zvizg-ěti > *zvižďžati:

  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: звѝждати
      Latin script: zvìždati
      • Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: zvižjot, žvižjot
    • Slovene: žvížgati (tonal orthography)

References

  1. Sławski, Franciszek, editor (2001), gvizdati”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 8 (goda – gyža), Wrocław: National Ossoliński Institute, →ISBN, page 315
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), žvížgati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *zvizdě̋ti, [...] *zvizda̋ti”

Further reading

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