rodìti

I. rodìti I Grammatical information: v. Proto-Slavic meaning: `give birth, bear (fruit)'

Old Church Slavic:

roditi `give birth, beget' [verb], roždǫ [1sg], rodiši [2sg]

Russian:

rodít' `give birth, bear' [verb], rožú [1sg], rodít [3sg]

Czech:

roditi `give birth, bear (fruit)' [verb]

Slovak:

rodit' `give birth, bear (fruit)' [verb]

Polish:

rodzić `give birth, bear (fruit)' [verb]

Serbo-Croatian:

ròditi `give birth, bear (fruit)' [verb], rȍdīm [1sg];

Čak. rodȉti (Vrgada) `bear, bring forth' [verb], rȍdīš [2sg];

Čak. rodȉt (Orbanići) `bear, bring forth' [verb], rȍdin [1sg]

Slovene:

rodíti `give birth, beget, bear (fruit)' [verb], rodím [1sg]

Bulgarian:

rodjá `give birth, bear (fruit)' [verb]

Latvian:

radît `give birth to, create' [verb]

Indo-European reconstruction: (H)rodʰ-eie-

Comments: The reconstruction of an aspirated voiced stop is based on Winter's law. The often suggested connection with Skt. várdhate `grow, increase, thrive' is formally problematic, since we would have to assume Schwebeablaut and loss of *u-.

II. roditi II Grammatical information: v. Proto-Slavic meaning: `care (about), heed'

Old Church Slavic:

neroditi `not care (about), not heed' [verb], neroždǫ [1sg]

Old Czech:

neroditi `not care (about)' [verb]

Upper Sorbian:

rodźić `want, strive' [verb]

Slovene:

róditi `care (about), observe' [verb], rǫ́dim [1sg]

Bulgarian:

rodjá `care (about), observe' [verb]

Other cognates:

Skr. rā́dhyate `succeed' [verb]