Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bosti

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bestei, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-é-ti. Cognate with Latvian best, Lithuanian bèsti, Old Prussian embaddusisi. Further related to Latin fodiō (“to pierce, to dig”), Hittite 𒁁𒁕𒀀𒄿 (“to dig”).

*bostì^[1][2]

1. to stab, sting

• *boďati
• *bodati (“to stab, sting”)
• *badati (“to prick”)
• *bodъ (“puncture, stitch”)
• *bodьcь (“pricker, poniard”)
• *bodьcati (“to often lightly poke”)
• *bodьlivъ (“pointy, prickly”)
• *bodъľь (“needle”)
• *body (“harpoon, trident”)
  • *bodylъ (“thorn, prickle”)
• *bodli

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: бость (bostʹ) (Smolensk), бости́ (bostí) (Kaliningrad Oblast)
  • Ukrainian: бости́ (bostý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: бости (bosti)
  • Bulgarian: бода́ (bodá)
  • Macedonian: боде (bode)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бо̏сти

    Latin script: bȍsti

  • Slovene: bósti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: bósti
    • Czech: bůst (poetic)
  • Polabian: büst
  • Polish: bóść
  • Sorbian:

    Upper Sorbian: bosć

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бода́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bosti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 222
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бода, бодвам, бодна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 61