Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/povědati

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 *pověděti +‎ *-ati.

Verb

*povědati impf (perfective *pověděti)

1. (intransitive) frequentative of *pověděti.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: повѣдати (povědati)
    • Old Ruthenian: повѣ́дати (pově́dati)
      • Belarusian: паве́даць (pavjédacʹ)
      • Ukrainian: пові́дати (povídaty)
    • Russian: пове́дать (povédatʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: повѣдати (povědati)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱁⰲⱑⰴⰰⱅⰻ (povědati)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: povédati (dated)

    Cyrillic script: пове́дати (dated)

  • Slovene: povẹ́dati pf (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: povídat
  • Old Polish: powiadać, powiedać
    • Polish: powiadać; powiedać (obsolete)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: pòwiadac
    • Slovincian: pôwjadac
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: powědaś

Further reading

• Snoj, Marko (2016) “povẹ́dati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
• Václav Machek (1968) “pověděti”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 476
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “powiadać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), volume 2, →ISBN, page 730