Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bučati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Alternative reconstructions

• *bǫčati (as per Trubachyev)

Etymology

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The onomatopoeic meaning seems to follow Proto-Balto-Slavic *bauketei, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew- + *-kati (a typical extension of onomatopoeic roots). Cognate with Lithuanian baũkti (“to roar”) and Sanskrit बुक्कति (bukkati, “to bark”).

The grammatical meaning to inflate may be descendant from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to blow”). Akin to Proto-Slavic *bujati (“to grow rampant”).

Verb

*bučàti impf

1. to roar, thud
2. to prick
3. to inflate, boil (for fluid); to clump (for solids)

Related terms

• *butati (“to push”)
• *butьca (“lump”)
• *buxati (“to strike”)
• *buxovati (“to explode, to thunder”) (of onomatopoeic origin)
• *buxaljь (“eagle owl”) (of onomatopoeic origin)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Russian: буча́ть (bučátʹ) (dialectal)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: буча́ (bučá)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бу́чати

    Latin script: búčati

    • Chakavian : būčȁti
  • Slovene: bučati

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bučeti
  • Polabian: b'aucĕ
  • Polish: buczeć
  • Slovak: bučať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bycaś
    • Upper Sorbian: bučeć

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: buças

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bučàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 67
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “буча́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bǫčàti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 02 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 232