Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/smykati

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

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Cognate with Lithuanian smùkti (“to slip down”) (smunkù), smaũkti (“to pull off”) (smaukiù), smaukýti, Latvian šmukt (šmùku), Old Norse smjúga, smuga (“narrow opening”), Middle High German smiegen, German schmiegen, Old English smúgan

Verb

*smykati impf

1. to drag

   Synonyms: *velťi, *tęgnǫti

2. to creep, crawl (+*sę)

   Synonym: *pьlzati

Inflection

Conjugation of *smykati, *smyka, *smykajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*smykanьje	*smykati	*smykatъ	*smykalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*smykanъ	*smykajemъ
Active	*smykavъ	*smykaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*smykaxъ	*smyka	*smyka	*smykajǫ	*smykaješi	*smykajetь
Dual	*smykaxově	*smykasta	*smykaste	*smykajevě	*smykajeta	*smykajete
Plural	*smykaxomъ	*smykaste	*smykašę	*smykajemъ	*smykajete	*smykajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*smykaaxъ	*smykaaše	*smykaaše	—	*smykaji	*smykaji
Dual	*smykaaxově	*smykaašeta	*smykaašete	*smykajivě	*smykajita	—
Plural	*smykaaxomъ	*smykaašete	*smykaaxǫ	*smykajimъ	*smykajite	—

See also

• *smuknǫti, *smukati/*smucati
• *mъčati, *mъknǫti, *sъmykati

Related terms

• *smykъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: смꙑкати сѧ (smykati sę)
    • Russian: (dialectal) смы́кать (smýkatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: сми́кати (smýkaty), сми́катися (smýkatysja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: смꙑкати сѩ (smykati sję)
    • → Russian: пресмыка́ться (presmykátʹsja)
  • Slovene: smíkati se, mȋkam se
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: smýkat
  • Polish: smykać się
    • ⇒ Polish: smycz
  • Slovak: smýkať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: smykać
    • Lower Sorbian: smykaś

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “смыкать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “смычок”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 181
• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “смꙑкати сѧ”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 617
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “смꙑкатисѧ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 447