obrěsti

obrěsti Grammatical information: v. Proto-Slavic meaning: `find'

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Old Church Slavic:

obrěsti `find' [verb], obręštǫ [1sg]

Russian:

obrestí (rhet.) `find' [verb], obretú [1sg], obretët [3sg], obrjášču (arch.) [1sg], obrjáščet [3sg]

Serbo-Croatian:

obresti (13th-16th c.) `find' [verb];

obrèsti se (dial.) `meet' [verb];

obrȅs(t) (dial.) `be found, turn out to be' [verb] \{1\}

Slovene:

obrẹ́sti `find' [verb], obrẹ́tem [1sg]

Lithuanian:

\{2\}

Indo-European reconstruction: h3ebh-urēt

Notes:

\{1\} According to Skok (III: 319), obresti was borrowed from Russian into the eastern variant of the literary language. The position of the dialect forms is unclear. \{2\} The Lithuanian verb surė̃sti `seize' (BB 26: 168), which Pokorny refers to, is obscure.