Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/briti

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 *brī́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰriH-yé-ti, from *bʰreyH- (“to cut”). Cognate with Albanian brij (“to rub, scratch”), Thracian βρίλων (brílōn, “barber”) and Indo-Iranian words (such as Sanskrit भ्रीणाति (bhrīṇā́ti, “to hurt”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬠𐬭𐬍𐬥𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (paⁱribrīnaⁱti, “to cut around”), Persian بریدن (boridan, “to cut”)).

*brìti impf^[1][2]

1. to shave

• Aorist form is unattested.

• *brìtva (“razor”)

• Church Slavonic: брити сѧ (briti sę), 1sg. бриѭ сѧ (brijǫ sę) (Russian recension)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: брыць (brycʹ)
  • Russian: брить (britʹ), 1sg. бре́ю (bréju)
  • Ukrainian: бри́ти (brýty), 1sg. бри́ю (brýju)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бри́я (bríja) (dialectal), бри́на (brína) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бри̏ти (archaic), брѝјати, 1sg. бри̏је̄м

    Latin: brȉti (archaic), brìjati, 1sg. brȉjēm

  • Slovene: bríti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bříti (obsolete), 1sg. břiji
  • Slovak: briť

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “брить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*briti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 31