Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xarati

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 *xarъ +‎ *-ati.

Verb

*xarati

1. to clean, to scrape

Inflection

Conjugation of *xarati, *xara, *xarajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*xaranьje	*xarati	*xaratъ	*xaralъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*xaranъ	*xarajemъ
Active	*xaravъ	*xaraję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*xaraxъ	*xara	*xara	*xarajǫ	*xaraješi	*xarajetь
Dual	*xaraxově	*xarasta	*xaraste	*xarajevě	*xarajeta	*xarajete
Plural	*xaraxomъ	*xaraste	*xarašę	*xarajemъ	*xarajete	*xarajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*xaraaxъ	*xaraaše	*xaraaše	—	*xaraji	*xaraji
Dual	*xaraaxově	*xaraašeta	*xaraašete	*xarajivě	*xarajita	—
Plural	*xaraaxomъ	*xaraašete	*xaraaxǫ	*xarajimъ	*xarajite	—

Related terms

• *xariti
• *xarobylьje n, *xarobura f
• *xaropǫditi
• *xorъ (“dark, black”)
  • *xorxoriti (“to brag, show off; to be defiant”)
  • *xorostь (“beauty, pleasantness; convenience”)
    • *xoroščьnъ (“beautiful; good”)
  • *xorovitъ (“beautiful; kind, fine”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: (dialectal) хара́тати (xarátaty, “to castrate (remove the testicles of)”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: (dialectal) ха́рам (háram, “to roam, to wander, to disturb”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ха̏рати, арати

    Latin script: hȁrati, arati

  • Slovene: hárati (“to beat, to pound”) (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “харити”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 158