Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/buza
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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. |
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
The South Slavic descendants have been related to Albanian buzë and Romanian buză, on basis of which it is speculated that all of them descend from a Balkan substratum.
If the term is of native origin, it would most likely be from the onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European *bʰewǵ- (“to blow, to swell”). Potential cognates include Lithuanian buožė (“mace”), Latvian buoze (“lump, ball”), and possibly Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”), Thracian βυζας (buzas, “buck”), Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“buck”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰuȷ́ás (“buck”).
From the same root, however, through other extensions are Latin bucca (“mouth”) and Latvian buča (“kiss”), Lithuanian bučinỹs (“kiss”).
Noun
*buza f
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *buza | *buzě | *buzy |
| genitive | *buzy | *buzu | *buzъ |
| dative | *buzě | *buzama | *buzamъ |
| accusative | *buzǫ | *buzě | *buzy |
| instrumental | *buzojǫ, *buzǫ** | *buzama | *buzami |
| locative | *buzě | *buzu | *buzasъ, *buzaxъ* |
| vocative | *buzo | *buzě | *buzy |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Derived terms
- *buziti (“to swell one's cheeks”)
- *buzьje (“cheeks (collectively)”)
- *buz(d)ro (“fat, flesh”)
- *buzestъ (“with thick cheeks”)
- *buzъka (“cheek”) (diminutive)
Related terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: буза (buza, “uproar”)
- South Slavic:
Further reading
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “buožė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*buza/*buzja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 103
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “буза”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 87