Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glodati

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

Verb

*glodàti

1. to gnaw

Inflection

Conjugation of *glodati, *gloda, *gloďetь (impf., tr., -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*glodanьje	*glodati	*glodatъ	*glodalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*glodanъ	*gloďemъ
Active	*glodavъ	*gloďę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*glodaxъ	*gloda	*gloda	*gloďǫ	*gloďeši	*gloďetь
Dual	*glodaxově	*glodasta	*glodaste	*gloďevě	*gloďeta	*gloďete
Plural	*glodaxomъ	*glodaste	*glodašę	*gloďemъ	*gloďete	*gloďǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*glodaaxъ	*glodaaše	*glodaaše	—	*gloďi	*gloďi
Dual	*glodaaxově	*glodaašeta	*glodaašete	*gloďivě	*gloďita	—
Plural	*glodaaxomъ	*glodaašete	*glodaaxǫ	*gloďimъ	*gloďite	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: глодати (glodati)
    • Russian: глода́ть (glodátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: глода́ти (hlodáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: гло́ждя (glóždja)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гло̀дати

    Latin script: glòdati

  • Slovene: glọ́dati, glódati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hlodati
    • Czech: hlodat
  • Polish: głodać
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hłodać
    • Lower Sorbian: głodaś (“to scratch”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glodati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 135
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глодать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress