drāžìti

drāžìti Grammatical information: v. Accent paradigm: b? Proto-Slavic meaning: `incite, provoke'

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Old Church Slavic:

razdražiti `incite (against), provoke' [verb], razdražǫ [1sg]

Russian:

drážit' (dial.) `tease' [verb], drážu [1sg], drážit [3sg];

dražít' (dial.) `tease' [verb], dražú [1sg], dražít [3sg] \{1\}

Old Czech:

drážiti `tease, annoy, incite' [verb]

Slovak:

drážit' (dial.) `irritate' [verb]

Serbo-Croatian:

drážiti `annoy, provoke' [verb], drȃžim [1sg];

Čak. drå̄žȉti (Vrgada) `annoy, provoke' [verb], drå̃žiš [2sg];

Čak. drōžȉt (Hvar) `annoy, provoke' [verb], dróžin [1sg]

Slovene:

drážiti `annoy, provoke, incite' [verb], drážim [1sg]

Comments: LIV reconstructs *dʰroh₂gʰ-eie-, connecting dražiti with Gk. θρᾱσσω, ταράσσω `stir up'. In view of the accentuation of the verb, this is problematic.

Notes:

\{1\} In the Pskov region, where both drážit' and dražít' are attested, a variant dorožit' seems to have been recorded as well. I am inclined to regard this as a hypercorrection.