Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/běgati

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

From *běťi / *běžàti +‎ *-ati.

Verb

*bě̀gati impf

1. frequentative of *běťi / *běžàti (“to run (to move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot)”)
2. (reflexive with *sę, North Slavic, of animals) to exhibit sex drive

Inflection

Conjugation of *běgati, *běga, *běgajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*běganьje	*běgati	*běgatъ	*běgalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*běganъ	*běgajemъ
Active	*běgavъ	*běgaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*běgaxъ	*běga	*běga	*běgajǫ	*běgaješi	*běgajetь
Dual	*běgaxově	*běgasta	*běgaste	*běgajevě	*běgajeta	*běgajete
Plural	*běgaxomъ	*běgaste	*běgašę	*běgajemъ	*běgajete	*běgajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*běgaaxъ	*běgaaše	*běgaaše	—	*běgaji	*běgaji
Dual	*běgaaxově	*běgaašeta	*běgaašete	*běgajivě	*běgajita	—
Plural	*běgaaxomъ	*běgaašete	*běgaaxǫ	*běgajimъ	*běgajite	—

Related terms

adjectives

• *běgǫtъ

nouns

• *běgunъ
• *běgъ
• *potьběga

verbs

• *běgnǫti
• *běžati
• *běžàti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бѣгати (běgati)
    • Old Ruthenian: бѣ́гати (bě́hati)
      • Belarusian: бе́гаць (bjéhacʹ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: бі́гати (bíhaty)
      • Ukrainian: бі́гати (bíhaty)
    • Russian: бе́гать (bégatʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: бѣгати (běgati)

    Glagolitic script: ⰱⱑⰳⰰⱅⰹ (běgati)

    • Bulgarian: бя́гам (bjágam)
    • Macedonian: бе́га (béga)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бе̏гати, бје̏гати

    Latin script: bȅgati, bjȅgati

  • Slovene: bẹ̑gati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: běhati
    • Czech: běhat
  • Old Polish: biegać
    • Polish: biegać
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: biegac
    • Slovincian: bjêgac
  • Old Slovak: behať
    • Pannonian Rusyn: бегац (behac)
    • Slovak: behať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: běgaś
    • Upper Sorbian: běhać

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*běgati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 58
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бегать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “biegać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), volume 47, page 1
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бя́гам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 106
• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “бе́гаць”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “бі́гати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Rejzek, Jiří (2007), “běžet”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda, page 74

• Králik, Ľubor (2016), “behať”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 66
• 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 23