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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bręknǫti
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *brínktei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-. Cognate with Lithuanian brìnkti (“to swell, bloat, grow dry”), Old Norse bringa (“chest”).
Verb
*brę̀knǫti pf[1][2]
- to swell
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: бря́кнуць (brjáknucʹ)
- Russian: бря́кнуть (brjáknutʹ) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: бря́кнути (brjáknuty)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: бре́кна (brékna) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: бре́кна (brékna)
- West Slavic:
- Polish: brzęknąć
- From *nabręknǫti
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: набре́кнути
- Latin: nabréknuti
- From *zabręknǫti
- Slovene: zabrę́kniti
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bręknǫti II”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 23
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бря́кнуть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*brę̀knǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 62: “v. (a) ‘swell’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “bręknǫ bręknetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 211)”