Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/břuxo

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/břuxo

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *brausa n, *brausas m, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewsom n, *bʰrewsos m, from *bʰrews-. Cognate with Proto-Celtic *brusū.

Noun

*břȗxo n[1][2]

1. belly

Inflection

Declension of *břȗxo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*břȗxo	*břȗśě	*břuxà
Accusative	*břȗxo	*břȗśě	*břuxà
Genitive	*břȗxa	*břuxù	*břũxъ
Locative	*břȗśě	*břuxù	*břuśě̃xъ
Dative	*břȗxu	*břuxomà	*břuxòmъ
Instrumental	*břȗxъmь, *břȗxomь*	*břuxomà	*břuxý
Vocative	*břuxo	*břȗśě	*břuxà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms

• *břȗxъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: брюхо n (brjuxo), брюхъ m (brjuxŭ)
    • Old Belarusian: брюхо (brjuxo)
      • Belarusian: бру́ха (brúxa)
    • Russian: брю́хо (brjúxo)
    • Rusyn: бріх (brix)
    • Ukrainian: бру́хо (brúxo)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: břuch m, břucho n
    • Czech: břich m, břicho n
      • Moravian (Mistřice): břuch
  • Kashubian: brzëch
  • Old Polish: brzucho n
    • Polish: brzuch m, brzucho n
  • Slovak: brucho
  • Slovincian: břȧ̃χ
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: brjuch
    • Upper Sorbian: brjuch

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*br'uxo/*br'uxъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 33
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “брюхо”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bŗȗxo; *bŗȗxъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 63: “n. o; m. o (c) ‘belly’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “brjuxo”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c bug (PR 138)”