Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/groxati
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Onomatopoeic
Verb
*groxati
- to bang
Inflection
Conjugation of *groxati, *groxa, *groxajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| *groxanьje | *groxati | *groxatъ | *groxalъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | *groxanъ | *groxajemъ |
| Active | *groxavъ | *groxaję |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *groxaxъ | *groxa | *groxa | *groxajǫ | *groxaješi | *groxajetь |
| Dual | *groxaxově | *groxasta | *groxaste | *groxajevě | *groxajeta | *groxajete |
| Plural | *groxaxomъ | *groxaste | *groxašę | *groxajemъ | *groxajete | *groxajǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *groxaaxъ | *groxaaše | *groxaaše | — | *groxaji | *groxaji |
| Dual | *groxaaxově | *groxaašeta | *groxaašete | *groxajivě | *groxajita | — |
| Plural | *groxaaxomъ | *groxaašete | *groxaaxǫ | *groxajimъ | *groxajite | — |
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: гро́хать (gróxatʹ)
- Ukrainian: гро́хати (hróxaty) (rare)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: гро́хам (gróham) (dialectal)
- Slovene: gróhati (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: hrochat (rare, obsolete?)
- Polish: gruchać
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*groxati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 134
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “грохати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka