Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grabiti

Etymology
From.
 * Per Derksen, from, from ; meanings "to rake" in daughter languages from confusion with the root (see ). Baltic cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Indo-European cognates include 🇨🇬. The same confusion appears to have happened elsewhere; compare 🇨🇬, . Avestan: grab- ‘to grab, seize, take’, Old Persian: grab- ‘to seize (as possesion), 🇨🇬, . 🇨🇬 vs. 🇨🇬, all of which come from . Derksen does not derive this verb from  due to , which is required to produce the acute *-a- of the Slavic root but would not operate in.
 * Per Vasmer, Chernykh and Trubachev, this verb in fact derives from, from ; see also 🇨🇬. Chernykh describes it as the causative of.
 * Per Rix (LIV), probably from, from , which allows for Winter's law and also accounts for the Sanskrit -(b)h- (but still doesn't account for the Germanic forms, which are supposed to derive from a different root ).

Verb

 * 1) to grab
 * 2) to seize

Descendants
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