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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buniti

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

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)

  1. to excite, to agitate
    (by extension) → to rebel, to riot
  2. to buzz, to ring (for sound)

Conjugation

  • *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:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*buniti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 96
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “буна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 90
  • Snoj, Marko (2016) “bújen”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:*bʰou̯(h₂)-i̯o-
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