Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sluti

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

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From Proto-Indo-European *ḱléw-(e)-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to listen to”); technically equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to incline towards”) + *-uti. The root vowel was retracted to -o- in Slavic due to the the following -w- (as in *novъ from Pre-Slavic *néwos). Cognate with Latvian sluvêt (“to become famous”), Ancient Greek κλέω (kléō, “to glorify”), Latin clueō (“to call”).

Verb

*slùti impf

1. to express in words, to utter
2. to have reputation for

Alternative forms

• *slyti (in East Slavic)

Inflection

Conjugation of *sluti, *slu, *slovetь (impf., intr., -V/C-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*slutьje	*sluti	*slutъ	*slulъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	—	—
Active	*sluvъ	*slovy

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*sluxъ	*slu	*slu	*slovǫ	*sloveši	*slovetь
Dual	*sluxově	*slusta	*sluste	*slovevě	*sloveta	*slovete
Plural	*sluxomъ	*sluste	*slušę	*slovemъ	*slovete	*slovǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*slověaxъ	*slověaše	*slověaše	—	*slovi	*slovi
Dual	*slověaxově	*slověašeta	*slověašete	*slověvě	*slověta	—
Plural	*slověaxomъ	*slověašete	*slověaxǫ	*slověmъ	*slověte	—

Derived terms

• *sloviti (“to put in words”)
  • *prosloviti (“to resound, to glorify”)
  • *bolgosloviti (“to bless”)
• *uslovьje (“condition, proviso”)
• *sъslovьje (“estate, social group”) (calque of Ancient Greek σύλλογος (súllogos, “assembly”))
• *poslovica (“proverb”)

Descendants

From *sluti:

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: слути (sluti)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: слоути (sluti)
  • Bulgarian: словя̀ (slovjà)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)

    Cyrillic script: слу̏ти

    Latin script: slȕti

  • Slovene: slúti (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: slúti
    • Czech: slout
  • Slovak: sluť

From *slyti:

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: слыць (slycʹ)
  • Russian: слыть (slytʹ)
  • Ukrainian: сли́ти (slýty)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: słynąć

Further reading

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

vol=2 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “слыть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN

• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “-сло̀вя, -словя̀”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 108