жрьти
See also: жрѣти
Old Church Slavonic
Alternative forms
- жрѣти (žrěti)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *žьrti, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *girʔ-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H-, zero-grade of *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”).[1] Cognates include Latin grātus (“welcome”), Lithuanian gìrti (“to praise”), Old Prussian girtwei (“to praise”) and Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “to praise”).
Verb
жрьти • (žrĭti) ?
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žьrti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 566