Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/strěľati

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 *strěla +‎ *-jati.

Verb

*strěľati

1. to throw arrows

Inflection

Conjugation of *strěľati, *strěľa, *strěľajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*strěľanьje	*strěľati	*strěľatъ	*strěľalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*strěľanъ	*strěľajemъ
Active	*strěľavъ	*strěľaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*strěľaxъ	*strěľa	*strěľa	*strěľajǫ	*strěľaješi	*strěľajetь
Dual	*strěľaxově	*strěľasta	*strěľaste	*strěľajevě	*strěľajeta	*strěľajete
Plural	*strěľaxomъ	*strěľaste	*strěľašę	*strěľajemъ	*strěľajete	*strěľajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*strěľaaxъ	*strěľaaše	*strěľaaše	—	*strěľaji	*strěľaji
Dual	*strěľaaxově	*strěľaašeta	*strěľaašete	*strěľajivě	*strěľajita	—
Plural	*strěľaaxomъ	*strěľaašete	*strěľaaxǫ	*strěľajimъ	*strěľajite	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стрѣлꙗти (strěljati)
    • Belarusian: страля́ць (straljácʹ)
    • Russian: стреля́ть (streljátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: стріля́ти (striljáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: стрѣлꙗти (strěljati)

  • Bulgarian: стрѐлям (strèljam)
  • Macedonian: стрела (strela)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: стриjѐљати

  • Slovene: strẹ́ljati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: strzelac
  • Old Czech: střieleti
    • Czech: střílet
  • Old Polish: strzelać
    • Polish: strzelać
    • Silesian: strzylać
  • Slovak: striеlаť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: stśelaś

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стреля́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress