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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buxati
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)
- (transitive) to bang?, to thump?
- (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)
- Old East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: бу́хам (búham)
- Macedonian: бува (buva)
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бу́хнути
- Latin: 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 Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress