- dāvìti
- dāvìti
Grammatical information: v.
Accent paradigm: b
Proto-Slavic meaning: `suffocate'
Page in Trubačev: IV 198-199Old Church Slavic:daviti `suffocate' [verb], davljǫ [1sg]Russian:davít' `press (upon), suffocate, crush' [verb], davljú [1sg], dávit [3sg]Czech:dáviti `suffocate, strangle, throw up' [verb]Slovak:dávit' `suffocate, strangle, throw up' [verb]Polish:dawić (obs., dial.) `suffocate, strangle' [verb]Serbo-Croatian:dáviti `suffocate, strangle' [verb], dȃvīm [1sg];Čak. då̑vȉti (Vrgada) `suffocate, strangle' [verb], då̃vīš [2sg]Slovene:dáviti `suffocate, strangle' [verb], dávim [1sg]Bulgarian:dávja `drown, suffocate, strangle' [verb]Indo-European reconstruction: dʰōh₂u-Page in Pokorny: 235Other cognates:Gk. Ζεὺς θαύλιος `strangler?';Go. afdauiʮs `tormented' [ppp]
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