Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/smъrkati

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 *smъrkъ +‎ *-ati.

Verb

*smъrkati

1. to blow (one's nose)?

Inflection

Conjugation of *smъrkati, *smъrka, *smъrkajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*smъrkanьje	*smъrkati	*smъrkatъ	*smъrkalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*smъrkanъ	*smъrkajemъ
Active	*smъrkavъ	*smъrkaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*smъrkaxъ	*smъrka	*smъrka	*smъrkajǫ	*smъrkaješi	*smъrkajetь
Dual	*smъrkaxově	*smъrkasta	*smъrkaste	*smъrkajevě	*smъrkajeta	*smъrkajete
Plural	*smъrkaxomъ	*smъrkaste	*smъrkašę	*smъrkajemъ	*smъrkajete	*smъrkajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*smъrkaaxъ	*smъrkaaše	*smъrkaaše	—	*smъrkaji	*smъrkaji
Dual	*smъrkaaxově	*smъrkaašeta	*smъrkaašete	*smъrkajivě	*smъrkajita	—
Plural	*smъrkaaxomъ	*smъrkaašete	*smъrkaaxǫ	*smъrkajimъ	*smъrkajite	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: смъркати (smŭrkati)
    • Old Ruthenian: *сморка́ти (*smorkáti)
      • Belarusian: смарка́ць (smarkácʹ), смарка́цца (smarkácca)
      • Ukrainian: сморка́ти (smorkáty), шма́ркати (šmárkaty), сма́рка́тися (smárkátysja)
    • Russian: сморка́ть (smorkátʹ), сморка́ться (smorkátʹsja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: смръкати (smrŭkati)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰿⱃⱏⰽⰰⱅⰻ (smrŭkati)

  • Bulgarian: смъ́ркам (smǎ́rkam) (dialectal); шмъркам (šmǎrkam)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: шмр́кати

    Latin script: šmŕkati

  • Slovene: smŕkati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: smarkac
  • Old Czech: smrkati
    • Czech: smrkat
  • Polish: smarkać
  • Silesian: smarkać
  • Slovak: smrkať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: smarkaś
    • Upper Sorbian: smorkać

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1972) “сморка́ть(ся)”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), volumes 3 (Муза – Сят), Moscow: Progress, page 691
• Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2008), “смарка́ць”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), volumes 12 (свабо́да – стэ́сам), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “шмаркати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN