Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bręčati

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

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *brenzg-, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Thracian βρυνχός.

Verb

*bręčati

1. to buzz

Conjugation

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• *bręčika

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: брѧчати (bręčati)
    • Russian: бренча́ть (brenčátʹ), бряча́ть (brjačátʹ) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: бреньча́ти (brenʹčáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: брѧчати (bręčati)

    Unspecified script:

  • Bulgarian: бръмча́ (brǎmčá)
  • Macedonian: бречи (breči), брмчи (brmči)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бре́чати

    Latin script: bréčati

  • Slovene: bréčati, brénčati
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: břečeti, brečeti, břenčeti, břinčeti
  • Polabian: brącĕ
  • Polish: brzęczeć
  • Slovak: brnčať, brenčať
  • Slovincian: brzãczec

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bręčati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 20
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бренча́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress