Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/brъzgati

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.

Probably onomatopoeic, related to *bryzgati. Analogous grade variation is also observed in Southern *prъskati : Northern *pryskati (both “to splash, to spray”). Formally equivalent to Lithuanian brũzgât (“to snort”), perhaps of shared origin (compare further Proto-Indo-European *bʰrew- (“to brew”)).

BER joins the meanings to strew (ръся) with to burst, to spew (пръскам), however, the later sense may also reflect *brьzgati.

*brъzgati impf

1. (intransitive) to popple → to strew, to drizzle (for liquid)
2. (by extension) to splatter, to gush
3. (reflexive) (+ *sę) to burst, to spew (for liquid, mucus)

• *bryzgati (enlonged grade)

• *brudъ (“mud, dirt”) (possibly)
• *bruzgati (“to charge, to commit”) (possibly)
• *bryzgъ, *bryzga (“mucus”)
• *bryskati (“to bound”)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бръ́згам (brǎ́zgam, “to strew; to burst”) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: брзга (brzga, “to gush, to splatter”)
• West Slavic:
  • Slovak: brzgať

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*brъzgati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 63
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бръзгам, бризвам, бризна, бръзнувам, бръзвам, бръзна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 83