Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buniti

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 *buna (“excitation; riot”) +‎ *-iti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to inflate, to grow”) and partially from the onomatopoeic *bew- (“to howl, to storm”).

Verb

*buniti pf (imperfective *bujiti)

1. to excite, to agitate

   (by extension) → to rebel, to riot

2. to buzz, to ring (for sound)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *buniti, *buni, *bunitь (perf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*buňenьje	*buniti	*bunitъ	*bunilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*buňenъ	—
Active	*buňь	—

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bunixъ	*buni	*buni	*buňǫ	*buniši	*bunitь
Dual	*bunixově	*bunista	*buniste	*bunivě	*bunita	*bunite
Plural	*bunixomъ	*buniste	*bunišę	*bunimъ	*bunite	*bunętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	—	—	—	—	*buni	*buni
Dual	—	—	—	*bunivě	*bunita	—
Plural	—	—	—	*bunimъ	*bunite	—

Notes:
• (*)*bunivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
• In perfective verbs, present expresses future

Related terms

• *bujь (“aggressive, excited”)
• *bujьnъ (“furious, impetuous”)
• *bujakъ (“savage, enraged man”)
• *bujьnostь (“aggressiveness”)
• *bujьstvo (“act of aggression”)
• *bujica (“torrent, flood”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: буни́ть (bunítʹ) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: буня́ (bunjá)
  • Macedonian: буни (buni)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бу́нити

    Latin script: búniti

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*buniti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 96
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “буна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 90
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “bújen”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*bʰou̯(h₂)-i̯o-”