Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/brexati

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

Onomatopoeic, according to ESSJa.

Verb

*brexati

1. to yelp, to bark

Inflection

Conjugation of *brexati, *brexa, *brešetь (?, -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*brexanьje	*brexati	*brexatъ	*brexalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*brexanъ	*brešemъ
Active	*brexavъ	*brešę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*brexaxъ	*brexa	*brexa	*brešǫ	*brešeši	*brešetь
Dual	*brexaxově	*brexasta	*brexaste	*breševě	*brešeta	*brešete
Plural	*brexaxomъ	*brexaste	*brexašę	*brešemъ	*brešete	*brešǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*brexaaxъ	*brexaaše	*brexaaše	—	*breši	*breši
Dual	*brexaaxově	*brexaašeta	*brexaašete	*brešivě	*brešita	—
Plural	*brexaaxomъ	*brexaašete	*brexaaxǫ	*brešimъ	*brešite	—

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: брехати (brexati)
    • Belarusian: браха́ць (braxácʹ)
    • Russian: бреха́ть (brexátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: бреха́ти (brexáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Serbian Church Slavonic: брехати (brexati)
  • Bulgarian: бре́хам (bréham) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: брехати

    Latin script: brehati

  • Slovene: brę́hati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: břesat, břechat (obsolete)
  • Polish: brzechać (obsolete)
  • Slovak: brechať

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*brexati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 13
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бреха́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress