Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slušati

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 earlier *sluxěti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *klauˀs-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlows-, from *ḱlew-. Baltic cognates include Lithuanian kláusti (“to ask”), klausýti (“to listen”), 3sg. klaũso, Old Prussian klausiton (“to hear”), klausēmai (“I listen”). Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit श्रोषति (śróṣati, “to listen, to obey”), Old Irish clúas (“hearing, ear”), Old High German hlosēn (“to listen”), English listen, loud, etc. Derksen asserts that the initial *s- (vs. Baltic initial *k-) was adopted from related words with e-grade vocalism, where it would be expected.

Verb

*slùšati impf

1. to listen

Inflection

Conjugation of *slušati, *sluša, *slušajetь (impf., -ě-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Suffix: *-ěti

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*slušanьje	*slušati	*slušatъ	*slušalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*slušanъ	*slušajemъ
Active	*slušavъ	*slušaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*slušaxъ	*sluša	*sluša	*slušajǫ	*slušaješi	*slušajetь
Dual	*slušaxově	*slušasta	*slušaste	*slušajevě	*slušajeta	*slušajete
Plural	*slušaxomъ	*slušaste	*slušašę	*slušajemъ	*slušajete	*slušajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*slušaaxъ	*slušaaše	*slušaaše	—	*slušaji	*slušaji
Dual	*slušaaxově	*slušaašeta	*slušaašete	*slušajivě	*slušajita	—
Plural	*slušaaxomъ	*slušaašete	*slušaaxǫ	*slušajimъ	*slušajite	—

Related terms

• *slùxati (“to listen”)
• *slỳšati (“to hear”)
• *sluti (“to be called”)
• *slàva (“glory, fame”)
• *slȍvo (“word”)
• *slȗxъ (“hearing, rumor”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: слушати (slušati)
    • Russian: слу́шать (slúšatʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: слоушати (slušati)

    Glagolitic script: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: слу́шам (slúšam)
  • Macedonian: слуша (sluša)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: слу̏шати

    Latin script: slȕšati

  • Slovene: slúšati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: slušěti
    • Czech: slušet
  • Old Polish: słuszać, słuszeć
  • Slovak: slušať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: słušeć
    • Lower Sorbian: słušaś

Further reading

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