Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/svatъ

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

PIE word
*swé

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Noun

*svatъ m

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Derived terms

• *svatьba

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сватъ (svatŭ)
    • Belarusian: сват (svat)
    • Russian: сват (svat)
    • Ukrainian: сват (svat)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: сват (svat)
  • Macedonian: сват (svat)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сва̏т

    Latin script: svȁt

  • Slovene: svȃt

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: svat
  • Polabian: swat
  • Polish: swat
  • Slovak: svat
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: swat

Further reading

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