Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buza

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

The South Slavic descendants have been related to Albanian buzë and Romanian buză, on basis of which it is speculated that all of them descend from a Balkan substratum.

If the term is of native origin, it would most likely be from the onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European *bʰewǵ- (“to blow, to swell”). Potential cognates include Lithuanian buožė (“mace”), Latvian buoze (“lump, ball”), and possibly Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”), Thracian βυζας (buzas, “buck”), Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“buck”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰuȷ́ás (“buck”).

From the same root, however, through other extensions are Latin bucca (“mouth”) and Latvian buča (“kiss”), Lithuanian bučinỹs (“kiss”).

Noun

*buza f

1. cheek, lips

   Synonym: *ščeka

2. buzz, uproar

Declension

Declension of *buza (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*buza	*buzě	*buzy
genitive	*buzy	*buzu	*buzъ
dative	*buzě	*buzama	*buzamъ
accusative	*buzǫ	*buzě	*buzy
instrumental	*buzojǫ, *buzǫ**	*buzama	*buzami
locative	*buzě	*buzu	*buzasъ, *buzaxъ*
vocative	*buzo	*buzě	*buzy

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

• *buziti (“to swell one's cheeks”)
  • *buzьje (“cheeks (collectively)”)
• *buz(d)ro (“fat, flesh”)
• *buzestъ (“with thick cheeks”)
• *buzъka (“cheek”) (diminutive)

Related terms

• *buxati (“to strike, to storm”)
• *trьbuхъ (“stomach”)
• *puxati (“to blow”)
• *puzo (“belly”)
• *puz(d)ro (“gut”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: буза (buza, “uproar”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: буза (buza, “cheek”)
  • Macedonian: буза (buza, “lips”)

• West Slavic:
  • Polish: buzia (“mouth”)
    • → Ukrainian: бузя (buzja)
    • → Ukrainian: бузі (buzi, “kiss”)

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “buožė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*buza/*buzja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 103
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “буза”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 87