Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvatati

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Slavic *xvatъ

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei

Proto-Slavic *-iti

Proto-Slavic *xvatiti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ā́ˀtei

Proto-Slavic *-ati

Proto-Slavic *xvatati

From *xvatiti + *-ati.

Verb

*xvatati impf

1. to grasp, catch, grab

Conjugation

Conjugation of *xvatati, *xvata, *xvatajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*xvatanьje	*xvatati	*xvatatъ	*xvatalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*xvatanъ	*xvatajemъ
Active	*xvatavъ	*xvataję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*xvataxъ	*xvata	*xvata	*xvatajǫ	*xvataješi	*xvatajetь
Dual	*xvataxově	*xvatasta	*xvataste	*xvatajevě	*xvatajeta	*xvatajete
Plural	*xvataxomъ	*xvataste	*xvatašę	*xvatajemъ	*xvatajete	*xvatajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*xvataaxъ	*xvataaše	*xvataaše	—	*xvataji	*xvataji
Dual	*xvataaxově	*xvataašeta	*xvataašete	*xvatajivě	*xvatajita	—
Plural	*xvataaxomъ	*xvataašete	*xvataaxǫ	*xvatajimъ	*xvatajite	—

Related terms

• *xъtě̀ti (“to want”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: хватити (xvatiti)
    • Belarusian: хвата́ць (xvatácʹ)
    • Russian: хвата́ть (xvatátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: хвата́ти (xvatáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: хватати (xvatati)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: хва́щам (hváštam) хва́тя (hvátja) (archaic, dialectal)
  • Macedonian: фа́ќа (fáḱa)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хва̏тати

    Latin script: hvȁtati

  • Slovene: hvátati
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: chvátati
    • Czech: chvátat
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): chvátat
  • Polish: chwatać, chwytać (mutual contamination with "chycić", current "chwycić")
  • Slovak: сhvátаť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: chwatać
    • Lower Sorbian: chwataś

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvatati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 123