Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buxati

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

Onomatopoeic. Has been compared to Ancient Greek βύᾱς (búās), Latin būbō, Latvian baũkš and Old Armenian բու (bu).

Verb

*buxati impf (perfective *buxnǫti)

1. (transitive) to bang?, to thump?
2. (intransitive) to thud?

Inflection

Conjugation of *buxati, *buxa, *buxajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*buxanьje	*buxati	*buxatъ	*buxalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*buxanъ	*buxajemъ
Active	*buxavъ	*buxaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*buxaxъ	*buxa	*buxa	*buxajǫ	*buxaješi	*buxajetь
Dual	*buxaxově	*buxasta	*buxaste	*buxajevě	*buxajeta	*buxajete
Plural	*buxaxomъ	*buxaste	*buxašę	*buxajemъ	*buxajete	*buxajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*buxaaxъ	*buxaaše	*buxaaše	—	*buxaji	*buxaji
Dual	*buxaaxově	*buxaašeta	*buxaašete	*buxajivě	*buxajita	—
Plural	*buxaaxomъ	*buxaašete	*buxaaxǫ	*buxajimъ	*buxajite	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: бу́хаць (búxacʹ)
    • Russian: бу́хать (búxatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: бу́хати (búxaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бу́хам (búham)
  • Macedonian: бува (buva)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бу́хнути

    Latin script: buhnuti

  • Slovene: búhati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • Czech: bouchat
  • Polish: buchać
  • Slovak: búchať
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: buchaś

    Upper Sorbian: buchać

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бу́хать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress