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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bujiti

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 *bujь (“vivid, outraged”) +‎ *-iti, reflecting Proto-Indo-European *bʰowH-éye-ti ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to inflate, to grow”). May have been influenced by the onomatopoeric Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, to storm”) (compare Proto-Slavic *buřa (“storm”), Proto-Slavic *buševati (“to bluster, to storm”)).

Verb

*bujiti impf (perfective *buniti)

  1. (transitive) to drive mad
  2. (intransitive) to go on a rampage
  3. (intransitive) to grow, to spread rapidly

Conjugation

  • *bujati (“to go on a rampage”)
  • *bujevati (“to grow vividly”)
  • *bujьnъ (“energetic, impetuous”)

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: обꙋити (obuiti)
    • Bulgarian: бу́я (búja), dial. бу́им (búim)
    • Macedonian: буи (bui)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: бу́јити
      Latin script: bújiti
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: bujit (dialectal)

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bujiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 84
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “буя, буяя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 96
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