Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zębnǫti

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 1

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From *zęb- +‎ *-nǫti.

Verb

*zębnǫti

1. to suffer from cold

Inflection

• 1sg. zębnǫ

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• *zęti (“to freeze?”)

• *zǫbъ (“tooth”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: зꙗбнꙋти (zjabnuti)
    • Belarusian: зя́бнуць (zjábnucʹ)
    • Russian: зя́бнуть (zjábnutʹ), 1sg. зя́бну (zjábnu)
    • Ukrainian: зя́бнути (zjábnuty)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: зѧбнѫти (zębnǫti)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: зе́бна (zébna)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: zábnout
  • Polish: ziębnąć
  • Slovak: ziabnuť

References

vol=1 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “зя́бнуть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zęti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 543
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “зя́бнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Etymology 2

Cognate with Lithuanian žémbėti (“to germinate, to sprout”). Per Derksen, also cognate with Latin gemma (“bud, gem”) (whence English gem), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵemb-; however, Derksen notes that this root structure is impossible for a Proto-Indo-European root.

Verb

*zębnǫti

1. to germinate

Inflection

• 1sg. zębnǫ

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: зꙗбнꙋти (zjabnuti)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: прозѧбнѫти (prozębnǫti)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

• West Slavic: —

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zębnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 543