Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dušiti

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.

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to breathe”) +‎ *-éyeti.

*dušìti impf

1. to smother, to suffocate, to choke
2. to breathe heavily

• *daviti (“to drown”)
• *duti (“to blow off, to swell”)
• *duxъ (“spirit”)
• *dъxъ (“breath, sniff”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: душы́ць (dušýcʹ)
  • Russian: души́ть (dušítʹ)
  • Ukrainian: души́ти (dušýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: душа́ (dušá)
  • Macedonian: души (duši) (literary), гуши (guši)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ду́шити (literary), гу́шити

    Latin script: dúšiti (literary), gúšiti

  • Slovene: dušíti, dušȋti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dusit
  • Kashubian: dëszëc, dusëc
  • Polish: dusić
  • Slovak: dusiť

• Olander, Thomas (2001) “dušiti: dušjǫ dušitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 260; PR 139)”
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “dušīti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*duši̋ti”
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dušiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 164
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “душа̀”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 452

Denominal verb from *duxъ (“spirit”) +‎ *-iti.

*dȗšiti impf

1. to sniff, to scent
2. to examine via scent

• *podušiti (“to smell”)
• *nadušiti (“to scent”)
• *sъdušiti (“to sniff”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: душы́ць (dušýcʹ, “to perfume”)
  • Russian: души́ть (dušítʹ, “to perfume”)
  • Ukrainian: души́ти (dušýty, “to perfume”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ду́ша (dúša, “to sniff, to try to smell”)
  • Macedonian: ду́шне (dúšne), ду́шка (dúška)

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “ду̀шa”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 452