Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bučati

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

Of onomatopoeic origin from Proto-Indo-European *bew- or possibly *bʰewH- (“to grow”) + *-čati. Cognate with Lithuanian baũkti (“to roar”), Sanskrit बुक्कति (bukkati, “to bark”).

Verb

*bučàti impf

1. to roar, to drone, to clatter

Conjugation

Conjugation of *bučati, *buča, *bučitь (impf., -ě/i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*bučanьje	*bučati	*bučatъ	*bučalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*bučanъ	*bučimъ
Active	*bučavъ	*bučę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bučaxъ	*buča	*buča	*bučǫ	*bučiši	*bučitь
Dual	*bučaxově	*bučasta	*bučaste	*bučivě	*bučita	*bučite
Plural	*bučaxomъ	*bučaste	*bučašę	*bučimъ	*bučite	*bučętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bučaaxъ	*bučaaše	*bučaaše	—	*buči	*buči
Dual	*bučaaxově	*bučaašeta	*bučaašete	*bučivě	*bučita	—
Plural	*bučaaxomъ	*bučaašete	*bučaaxǫ	*bučimъ	*bučite	—

Related terms

• *buka (“turmoil, uproar”)
  • *bukati (iterative)

See also

• *bǫčati (“to buzz”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Russian: буча́ть (bučátʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: буча́ (bučá)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бу́чати

    Latin script: búčati

  • Slovene: bučáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bučeti
  • Polabian: b'aucĕ
  • Polish: buczeć
  • Slovak: bučať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bycaś
    • Upper Sorbian: bučeć

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: buças

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “буча́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bučati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 74