Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/groxati

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

Onomatopoeic

Verb

*groxati

1. to bang

Inflection

Conjugation of *groxati, *groxa, *groxajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*groxanьje	*groxati	*groxatъ	*groxalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*groxanъ	*groxajemъ
Active	*groxavъ	*groxaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*groxaxъ	*groxa	*groxa	*groxajǫ	*groxaješi	*groxajetь
Dual	*groxaxově	*groxasta	*groxaste	*groxajevě	*groxajeta	*groxajete
Plural	*groxaxomъ	*groxaste	*groxašę	*groxajemъ	*groxajete	*groxajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*groxaaxъ	*groxaaše	*groxaaše	—	*groxaji	*groxaji
Dual	*groxaaxově	*groxaašeta	*groxaašete	*groxajivě	*groxajita	—
Plural	*groxaaxomъ	*groxaašete	*groxaaxǫ	*groxajimъ	*groxajite	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: гро́хать (gróxatʹ)
  • Ukrainian: гро́хати (hróxaty) (rare)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: гро́хам (gróham) (dialectal)
  • Slovene: gróhati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hrochat (rare, obsolete?)
  • Polish: gruchać

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*groxati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 134
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “грохати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka