Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/blějati

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *blḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₁-ti, from *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”).

Verb

*blějati impf

1. to bleat

Inflection

Conjugation of *blějati, *blěja, *blějetь (impf., -ja/V-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*blějanьje	*blějati	*blějatъ	*blějalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*blějanъ	*blějemъ
Active	*blějavъ	*blěję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*blějaxъ	*blěja	*blěja	*blějǫ	*blěješi	*blějetь
Dual	*blějaxově	*blějasta	*blějaste	*blějevě	*blějeta	*blějete
Plural	*blějaxomъ	*blějaste	*blějašę	*blějemъ	*blějete	*blějǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*blějaaxъ	*blějaaše	*blějaaše	—	*blěji	*blěji
Dual	*blějaaxově	*blějaašeta	*blějaašete	*blějivě	*blějita	—
Plural	*blějaaxomъ	*blějaašete	*blějaaxǫ	*blějimъ	*blějite	—

Alternative forms

• *blejati

Descendants

• Church Slavonic: блѣꙗти (blějati) (Russian)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: блѣꙗти (blějati)
    • Belarusian: бляя́ць (bljajácʹ)
    • Russian: бле́ять (bléjatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: бле́яти (bléjaty), блія́ти (blijáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бле́я (bléja)
  • Macedonian: блее (blee)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бле́јати

    Latin script: bléjati

  • Slovene: blẹ́jati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bleti (archaic)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бле́ять”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “бле́ять”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 94
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*blejati / *blějati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 107