Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dyxati

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.

Formed as *dyxъ (“whiff”) +‎ *-ati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dáuṣas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰus-, *dʰūs-, *dʰwes- (“to blow”), see also Latvian dvest (“to breathe”), Lithuanian dūsúoti (“to breathe heavily”).^[1]

*dyxàti impf (perfective *dyxnǫti)^[2][3][4]

1. to breathe

Original:

Secondary:

• *dyšati (intensive)
• *dyxavica

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ды́хаць (dýxacʹ)
  • Russian: ды́хать (dýxatʹ) (obsolete)
  • Ukrainian: ди́хати (dýxaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: дꙑхати (dyxati)
  • Bulgarian: дихая (dihaja) (archaic), дихам (diham), дихвам (dihvam)
  • Macedonian: дише (diše), dial. дија (dija)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (Chakavian)

    Cyrillic script: дихати

    Latin script: díhati, dȉhati

  • Slovene: díhati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dýchati
    • Czech: dýchat
  • Polish: dychać (archaic)
  • Old Slovak: dýchať
    • Pannonian Rusyn: дихац (dixac)
    • Slovak: dýchať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: dychać

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: dihat

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ды́хать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dyxati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 199
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “дихам, дихвам, дихна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 398