Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/laziti

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 Proto-Indo-European *loh₁ǵ-ey-, causative/iterative of *leh₁ǵ-. Cognate with Latvian lẽzêt (“to slide”), Old Prussian līse (“(he) crawls”, 3sg.), Old Norse lágr (“low”), English low.

Verb

*làziti

1. to creep, to crawl

Inflection

Conjugation of *laziti, *lazi, *lazitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*laženьje	*laziti	*lazitъ	*lazilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*laženъ	*lazimъ
Active	*lažь	*lazę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*lazixъ	*lazi	*lazi	*lažǫ	*laziši	*lazitь
Dual	*lazixově	*lazista	*laziste	*lazivě	*lazita	*lazite
Plural	*lazixomъ	*laziste	*lazišę	*lazimъ	*lazite	*lazętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*lažaaxъ	*lažaaše	*lažaaše	—	*lazi	*lazi
Dual	*lažaaxově	*lažaašeta	*lažaašete	*lazivě	*lazita	—
Plural	*lažaaxomъ	*lažaašete	*lažaaxǫ	*lazimъ	*lazite	—

Notes:
• (*)*lazivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

• *lě̀zti (“to creep, to crawl”)
• *lazъ (“plowed field? narrow passage?”)
• *lazivo (“ladder”)
• *lazidlo (“ladder”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лазити (laziti)
    • Belarusian: ла́зіць (lázicʹ)
    • Russian: ла́зить (lázitʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ла́зити (lázyty)
  • Old Novgorodian: ла́ꙁити (láziti)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: лазити (laziti)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: ла́зя (lázja)
  • Macedonian: лази (lazi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ла̏зити

    Latin script: lȁziti

  • Slovene: láziti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: lazit
  • Polabian: lozĕ
  • Old Polish: łazić
    • Polish: łazić
  • Slovak: laziť
  • Slovincian: lazëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: łazyć
    • Lower Sorbian: łazyś

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ла́зить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “лезть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 474
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*laziti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 64