Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/baxati

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

Most likely from an extension of proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, to tell fables”).

Verb

*baxati impf

1. to brag
2. to gossip, to tattle

Conjugation

Conjugation of *baxati, *baxa, *baxajetь (?, -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*baxanьje	*baxati	*baxatъ	*baxalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*baxanъ	*baxajemъ
Active	*baxavъ	*baxaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*baxaxъ	*baxa	*baxa	*baxajǫ	*baxaješi	*baxajetь
Dual	*baxaxově	*baxasta	*baxaste	*baxajevě	*baxajeta	*baxajete
Plural	*baxaxomъ	*baxaste	*baxašę	*baxajemъ	*baxajete	*baxajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*baxaaxъ	*baxaaše	*baxaaše	—	*baxaji	*baxaji
Dual	*baxaaxově	*baxaašeta	*baxaašete	*baxajivě	*baxajita	—
Plural	*baxaaxomъ	*baxaašete	*baxaaxǫ	*baxajimъ	*baxajite	—

Derived terms

• *baxnǫti (“to tattle”)
• *baxačь (“tattler”)
• *baxatъ (“gossipy”)
• *baxunъ (“impostor”)
• *baxora (“tale, fable”)
  • *baxoriti (“to concoct, to spell”)
  • *baxařь (“storyteller, beadle”)
  • *baxorica (“witch”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: ба́хать (báxatʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ба́хати (báxaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бахати

    Latin script: bàhati

  • Slovene: báhati
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bàchati (dialectal)
  • Slovak: bàchať

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*baxati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 134