Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bujati

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 +‎ *-ěti (or *-ati) from the eh₁-fientive *bʰowH-yeh₁-ti (or respectively the eh₂-causative *bʰowH-eh₂yé-ti), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to inflate, to grow”). The secondary meaning related to rampaging and aggressiveness may have been partially influenced by the onomatopoeic *bew- (“to howl, to blow”).

Verb

*bujati impf (perfective *buniti)

1. to grow rapidly, to thrive
2. to rage

Conjugation

Conjugation of *bujati, *buja, *bujajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*bujanьje	*bujati	*bujatъ	*bujalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*bujanъ	*bujajemъ
Active	*bujavъ	*bujaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bujaxъ	*buja	*buja	*bujajǫ	*bujaješi	*bujajetь
Dual	*bujaxově	*bujasta	*bujaste	*bujajevě	*bujajeta	*bujajete
Plural	*bujaxomъ	*bujaste	*bujašę	*bujajemъ	*bujajete	*bujajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bujaaxъ	*bujaaše	*bujaaše	—	*bujaji	*bujaji
Dual	*bujaaxově	*bujaašeta	*bujaašete	*bujajivě	*bujajita	—
Plural	*bujaaxomъ	*bujaašete	*bujaaxǫ	*bujajimъ	*bujajite	—

Related terms

• *byti (“to be”)
• *baviti (“to delay”)
• *bujiti (“to go on a rampage”)
• *bujevati (“to grow vividly”)
• *bujь (“aggressive, excited”)
• *bujьnъ (“furious, impetuous”)
• *bujakъ (“savage, enraged man”)
• *bujьnostь (“aggressiveness”)
• *bujьstvo (“act of aggression”)
• *bujica (“torrent, flood”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: буя́ць (bujácʹ)
  • Russian: буя́ть (bujátʹ) (dialectic)
  • Ukrainian: буя́ти (bujáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: бꙋꙗти (bujati)
  • Bulgarian: буяя (bujaja)
  • Macedonian: буи (bui) (i-stem derivative)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бу̀јати

    Latin script: bùjati

  • Slovene:
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: bujěti
    • Czech: bujet
  • Kashubian: bùjac
  • Old Polish: bujać
    • Polish: bujać
  • Slovak: bujať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian:

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bujati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 83
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “буя, буяя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 96
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “bújen”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*bʰou̯(h₂)-i̯o-”