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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buza

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

The South Slavic descendants have been related to Albanian buzë and Romanian buză, on basis of which it is speculated that all of them descend from a Balkan substratum.

If the term is of native origin, it would most likely be from the onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European *bʰewǵ- (“to blow, to swell”). Potential cognates include Lithuanian buožė (“mace”), Latvian buoze (“lump, ball”), and possibly Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”), Thracian βυζας (vyzas, “buck”), Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“buck”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰuȷ́ás (“buck”).

From the same root, however, through other extensions are Latin bucca (“mouth”) and Latvian buča (“kiss”), Lithuanian bučinỹs (“kiss”).

Noun

*buza f

  1. cheek, lips
    Synonym: *ščeka
  2. buzz, uproar

Declension
Declension of *buza (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *buza *buzě *buzy
genitive *buzy *buzu *buzъ
dative *buzě *buzama *buzamъ
accusative *buzǫ *buzě *buzy
instrumental *buzojǫ, *buzǫ** *buzama *buzami
locative *buzě *buzu *buzasъ, *buzaxъ*
vocative *buzo *buzě *buzy
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms
  • *buziti (“to swell one's cheeks”)
    • *buzьje (“cheeks (collectively)”)
  • *buz(d)ro (“fat, flesh”)
  • *buzestъ (“with thick cheeks”)
  • *buzъka (“cheek”) (diminutive)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: буза (buza, “uproar”)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Polish: buzia (“mouth”)
      • → Ukrainian: бузя (buzja)
      • → Ukrainian: бузі (buzi, “kiss”)

Further reading
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “buožė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*buza/*buzja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 103
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “буза”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 87
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