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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/puxati

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pauš- + Proto-Slavic *-ati, from Proto-Indo-European *pews-. Cognate with Lithuanian pũsti (to blow), 1sg. puciù, pùsti (to inflate), 1sg. puntù, pūslė̃ (blister, bladder), Norwegian føysa (to swell), Sanskrit पुष्यति (púṣyati, to thrive), Latin pustula (bubble), possibly Ancient Greek φῡσάω (phūsáō, to snort), φῦσα (phûsa, bellows, bubble), Old Armenian փուք (pʻukʻ, breath).

Verb

*puxàti impf[1][2]

  1. to blow? to swell?

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *orzpuxati

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Bulgarian: пу́ша (púša)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пу́хати
      Latin script: púhati
    • Slovene: pūhati (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: puchati
      • Czech: napuchati, opuchati
    • Polish: puchać
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: puchać
      • Lower Sorbian: puchaś

Further reading

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пу́хнуть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 85
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пу́хнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2008), “*orzpuxati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 34 (*orzmajь – *orzstegajь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 184

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*puxati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 423:v.
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “pūhati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:*puxa̋ti
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