Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/majati

Etymology
From, with *-j- (or *-v-) inserted to break hiatus. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 1sg. , 🇨🇬, 1sg. , from.

Pokorny (and hence Vasmer) separates the meanings "to detain, to exhaust" found among some daughter languages into a separate, homophonous root *majati derived from and cognate with 🇨🇬,  (modern 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. Derksen prefers to keep all meanings together under.

See also, for further discussion.

Verb

 * 1) to beckon
 * 2) to wave
 * 3) to detain, to dawdle
 * 4) to enchant, to charm

Descendants

 * East Slavic:
 * ; dialectal
 * South Slavic:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: (attested form )
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 * Sorbian:
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