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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫčiti

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *punHk-; cognate with Latin pānus (tumor). Vasmer adds as cognate Persian پنگ (pang, bunch of dates), but alternatively suggests that the verb is onomatopoeic.

Verb

*pǫ̀čiti

  1. to swell, to burst

Inflection

  • *pǫkъ (bud)
  • *pǫčati (to bud, to germinate)
  • *pǫčina (abyss, open sea)
  • *pǫkati (to burst?)
  • *pǫknǫti (to burst?)
  • *pǫgy, *pǫgъvica (knob, button)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: пу́чить (púčitʹ, to become swollen)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пу̏ћи (to burst, to crack, to shoot), 1sg. пу̏кне̄м
      Latin: pȕći (to burst, to crack, to shoot), 1sg. pȕknēm
    • Slovene: pọ́čiti (to burst, to crack, to hit) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pọ̑čim (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic: —

References

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пук”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 82
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pǫčiti; *pǫkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 416
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пу́кать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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