Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/brujati

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.

Of onomatopoeic origin or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to incite, to spring”), whence Lithuanian bráuti (“to press, to push”). Georgiev has considered possible relation to Ancient Greek βρύω (brúō, “to gush forth, to burst”), which is dismissed by Trubačev (ESSJa).

*brujati impf

1. to buzz (e.g. bee, beetle)

   Synonyms: *brьněti, *bǫčati

2. to rustle, to purl

• *bruja (“riffle, vibration; rapid, torrent (of flowing water)”)
  • *brujiti (“to rumble, to popple; to gush forth”)
  • *brujьnъ (“bubbling, rumbling”)

• *bruxati (“to grunt”)
• *brukati, *brusiti (“to pound, to hack”)
• *břuzga (“grouch, grumple”)
• *brъzgati, *bryzgati (“to sprinkle, to splatter”) (possibly)

• *bǫbarъ (“bumblebee”)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: бруя́ть (brujátʹ)^[1] (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бру́јати

    Latin script: brújati

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*brujati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 45
• Anikin, A. E. (2011) “бруя́”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 4 (боле – бтарь), Moscow: Znak, →ISBN, page 287
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “бру́я”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 271
• “brautis”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012