Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/běťi

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

Alternative forms

• *běgti (earlier, unassimilated form, as in Derksen, Chernykh, Vasmer)
• *běgťi (earlier, partly assimilated form, as in Trubachev)

Verb

*běťi impf

1. Alternative form of *běgati

Inflection

Conjugation of *běťi, *běže, *běžetь (impf., -C-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*běženьje	*běťi	*běťь	*běglъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*běženъ	*běgomъ
Active	*běgъ	*běgy

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*běg(ox)ъ	*běže	*běže	*běgǫ	*běžeši	*běžetь
Dual	*běg(ox)ově	*běg(e/os)ta	*běg(e/os)te	*běževě	*běžeta	*běžete
Plural	*běg(ox)omъ	*běg(e/os)te	*běgǫ, *běgošę	*běžemъ	*běžete	*běgǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*běžaaxъ	*běžaaše	*běžaaše	—	*bědzi	*bědzi
Dual	*běžaaxově	*běžaašeta	*běžaašete	*bědzěvě	*bědzěta	—
Plural	*běžaaxomъ	*běžaašete	*běžaaxǫ	*bědzěmъ	*bědzěte	—

Notes:
• Aorist *běgeste ⇒ *běžeste, ...

Descendants

• East Slavic
  • Russian: бечь (bečʹ)
  • Ukrainian: бігти (bihty)
  • Belarusian: бегчы (bjehčy)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀бећи

    Latin script: pòbeći

• West Slavic
  • Old Polish: biec
    • Polish: biec