Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bučati

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

Alternative reconstructions

*bǫčati (as per Trubachyev)

Etymology

The onomatopoeic meaning seems to follow Proto-Balto-Slavic *bauketei, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bew- + *-kati (a typical extension of onomatopoeic roots). Cognate with Lithuanian baũkti (“to roar”) and Sanskrit बुक्कति (bukkati, “to bark”).

The grammatical meaning to inflate may be descendant from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to blow”). Akin to Proto-Slavic *bujati (“to grow rampant”).

Verb

*bučàti impf

to roar, thud
to prick
to inflate, boil (for fluid); to clump (for solids)

Related terms

*butati (“to push”)
*butьca (“lump”)
*buxati (“to strike”)
*buxovati (“to explode, to thunder”) (of onomatopoeic origin)
*buxaljь (“eagle owl”) (of onomatopoeic origin)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
  - Russian: буча́ть (bučátʹ) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: буча́ (bučá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: бу́чати
  Latin: búčati
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): būčȁti
- Slovene: bučati
West Slavic:
- Czech: bučeti
- Polabian: b'aucĕ
- Polish: buczeć
- Slovak: bučať
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: bycaś
  - Upper Sorbian: bučeć

Non-Slavic:
- → Albanian: buças

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bučàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 67
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “буча́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bǫčàti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 232