Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/daviti

Etymology

 * Uhlenbeck, Miklosič, Vasmer: Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (attested as ). Possibly from +, from  (per Derksen); elsewhere reconstructed as . Further akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * Less likely from, with cognates 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬.

Most West Slavic languages have intruded an unetymological *-l- to the onset of the root, probably influenced by the reflexes of.

Verb

 * 1) to press, to plunge
 * 2)  to throttle, to suffocate, to strangle
 * 3)  (+ ) to drown, to choke
 * 1)  (+ ) to drown, to choke

Descendants

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