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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buniti
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Formed as *buna (“excitation; riot”) + *-iti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to inflate, to grow”) and partially from the onomatopoeic *bew- (“to howl, to storm”).
Verb
*buniti pf (imperfective *bujiti)
- to excite, to agitate
- (by extension) → to rebel, to riot
- to buzz, to ring (for sound)
Conjugation
Conjugation of *buniti, *buni, *bunitь (perf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Suffix: *-iti
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
― iterative (*nositi⇐*nesti)
― causative (*pojiti⇐*piti)
― ...
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*buňenьje | *buniti | *bunitъ | *bunilъ |
Participles | ||
---|---|---|
Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *buňenъ | — |
Active | *buňь | — |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *bunixъ | *buni | *buni | *buňǫ | *buniši | *bunitь |
Dual | *bunixově | *bunista | *buniste | *bunivě | *bunita | *bunite |
Plural | *bunixomъ | *buniste | *bunišę | *bunimъ | *bunite | *bunętь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | — | — | — | — | *buni | *buni |
Dual | — | — | — | *bunivě | *bunita | — |
Plural | — | — | — | *bunimъ | *bunite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*bunivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
- In perfective verbs, present expresses future
Related terms
- *bujь (“aggressive, excited”)
- *bujьnъ (“furious, impetuous”)
- *bujakъ (“savage, enraged man”)
- *bujьnostь (“aggressiveness”)
- *bujьstvo (“act of aggression”)
- *bujica (“torrent, flood”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: буни́ть (bunítʹ) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: буня́ (bunjá)
- Macedonian: буни (buni)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бу́нити
- Latin: búniti
- West Slavic:
- Slovincian: bunić
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*buniti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 96
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “буна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 90
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “bújen”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*bʰou̯(h₂)-i̯o-”