Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pьzděti

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.

• *bьzděti

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p(e)sdeˀtei, *b(e)sdeˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *pesd-. Cognate with Latvian bzdêt, Lithuanian bezdė́ti, Ancient Greek βδέω (bdéō), Latin pēdō.

*pьzděti impf

1. to fart

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *бьздѣти (*bĭzděti)
    • Old Ruthenian: *бздѣ́ти (*bzdě́ti)
      • Belarusian: бздзець (bzdzjecʹ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: бздї́ти (bzdjíty)
      • Ukrainian: бзді́ти (bzdíty); бизді́ти (byzdíty), пезді́ти (pezdíty) (dialectal)
    • Russian: бздеть (bzdetʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пъздя́ (pǎzdjá), бъздя́ (bǎzdjá) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: базди (bazdi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ба̀здети, ба̀здјети

    Latin script: bàzdeti, bàzdjeti

  • Slovene: pezdéti
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pzdieti, bzdieti
    • Early Modern Czech: bzdíti
      • Czech: bzdít
  • Polish: bździeć, bździć
  • Silesian: bździeć
  • Slovak: bzdieť
  • Kashubian: bzdzëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bźeś
    • Upper Sorbian: bzdeć

• Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “bьzděti, pьzděti”, in Słownik prasłowiański (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 487
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pьzděti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 431
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бздеть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress