Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/běžati

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bēˀgjā́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʷ-y-eh₂-ti (innovative denominative present), from *bʰegʷ- (“to flee, run”).

Verb

*běžàti impf (frequentative *bě̀gati)

1. to be in fast motion, to move/go/drive quickly
2. to flee (to run away)
3. to trickle (to flow slowly in small streams)

Inflection

Conjugation of *běžati, *běža, *běžitь (impf., -ě/i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm c)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*běžanьje	*běžati	*běžatъ	*běžalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*běžanъ	*běžimъ
Active	*běžavъ	*běžę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*běžaxъ	*běža	*běža	*běžǫ	*běžiši	*běžitь
Dual	*běžaxově	*běžasta	*běžaste	*běživě	*běžita	*běžite
Plural	*běžaxomъ	*běžaste	*běžašę	*běžimъ	*běžite	*běžętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*běžaaxъ	*běžaaše	*běžaaše	—	*běži	*běži
Dual	*běžaaxově	*běžaašeta	*běžaašete	*běživě	*běžita	—
Plural	*běžaaxomъ	*běžaašete	*běžaaxǫ	*běžimъ	*běžite	—

Derived terms

verbs

• *běžьkati

Related terms

adjectives

• *běgǫtъ

nouns

• *běgunъ
• *běgъ
• *potьběga

verb

• *běgnǫti
• *běťi
• *bě̀gati

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бѣжати (běžati)
    • Old Ruthenian: бѣжати (běžati)
      • Belarusian: бе́гчы (bjéhčy)
      • Ukrainian: бі́гти (bíhty)
    • Russian: бежа́ть (bežátʹ)
  • Old Novgorodian: бѣжати (běžati)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: бѣжати (běžati)

    Glagolitic script: ⰱⱑⰶⰰⱅⰹ (běžati)

    • ⇒ Bulgarian: беж (bež)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бјѐжати, бѐжати

    Latin script: bjèžati, bèžati

    • Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: bižȁti, bežāt
  • Slovene: bẹ́žati, bežáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: běžeti
    • Czech: běžet
  • Old Polish: bieżeć
    • Polish: bieżeć (archaic, literary)
    • Silesian: biyżeć
  • Old Slovak: bežať
    • Slovak: bežať
  • Polabian: bezăt
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: bieżec
    • Slovincian: bjêżec
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: běžaś
    • Upper Sorbian: běžeć

• Non-Slavic:
  • →? Proto-Finnic: *pästäk

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*běžati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 92
• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “bieżeć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 28
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “bieżeć”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), volume 51, page 1
• Anikin, A. E. (2009), “бе́гать”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 35
• Králik, Ľubor (2016), “behať”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 66
• Rejzek, Jiří (2007), “běžet”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda, page 74