Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bręknǫti

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 *brínktei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-. Cognate with Lithuanian brìnkti (“to swell, bloat, grow dry”), Old Norse bringa (“chest”).

Verb

*brę̀knǫti pf

1. to swell

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: бря́кнуць (brjáknucʹ)
  • Russian: бря́кнуть (brjáknutʹ) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: бря́кнути (brjáknuty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бре́кна (brékna) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: бре́кна (brékna)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: brzęknąć

From *nabręknǫti

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: набре́кнути

  Latin script: nabréknuti

From *zabręknǫti

• Slovene: zabrę́kniti

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bręknǫti II”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 23
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бря́кнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress