Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bľьvati

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.

Perhaps from merging of:

• Per Vasmer, Snoj: From *bľuti (“to surge, to gush”) +‎ *-ati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bljauˀtei, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-. Cognate with Lithuanian bliáuti (“to bleat, to weep”), Latvian bļaût (“to bleat”) and further akin to Ancient Greek φλύω (phlúō, “to boil over”), Latin fluō (“flow”). Related terms such as *blyjati, *blyvati can only descend from this source.
• Per Trubačev (ESSJa): Specifically for the expressive meaning “to vomit, to puke”, possibly from an earlier *bjьvati, analogous to Proto-Slavic *pľьvati (“to spit”) < *pjьvati. Descendants without epenthetic *-ľ- are attested in dial. Bulgarian бю́вам (bjúvam).

*bľьvati impf^[1][2][3]

1. to gush, to spout (liquid, fume)
2. (expressive) to vomit, to puke

Reanalysed at a later stage among some languages as:

• *blyjati, *blyvati (“to spring, to overflow”)
• *bľukati (“to gush, to spout”), *bľumati (“to splash”)
• *bľuščь (“ivy”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: бльвати (blĭvati)
    • Old Ruthenian:
      • Belarusian: блю́ваць (bljúvacʹ), блява́ць (bljavácʹ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: бльо́вати (blʹóvaty)
      • Ukrainian: блюва́ти (bljuváty)
    • Russian: блева́ть (blevátʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: бльвати (blĭvati)

    Glagolitic script: ⰱⰾⱐⰲⰰⱅⰺ (blĭvati)

  • Bulgarian: бъ́лвам (bǎ́lvam)
  • Macedonian: блуе (blue)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бљу̀вати

    Latin script: bljùvati

  • Slovene: bljuváti, bljeváti
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: blít
  • Polabian: bľåvăt
  • Old Polish: bluć
  • Slovak: bľuvať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bluwaś
    • Upper Sorbian: bluwać

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “блева́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bľьvati, *bľujǫ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 140
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бълвам, блъвна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 98