Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pustiti

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.

Per Derksen, cognate with *pȗstъ (“empty”) and Old Prussian pausto (“wild”); further connections unknown. Pokorny suggests a connection with Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis, “end, rest, pause”) (whence English pause), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂s-, but Derksen challenges this on accentual grounds.

*pustìti^[1]

1. to let go
2. to let
3. to send

• *pȗstъ (“empty”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пустити (pustiti)
    • Belarusian: пусці́ць (puscícʹ)
    • Russian: пусти́ть (pustítʹ)
    • Ukrainian: пусти́ти (pustýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: поустити (pustiti)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⱆⱄⱅⰻⱅⰻ (pustiti)

  • Bulgarian: пу́стя (pústja) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу̀стити

    Latin: pùstiti

  • Slovene: pustíti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pustit
  • Polabian: paustĕt
  • Polish: puścić
  • Slovak: pustiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pušćić, pušćeć
    • Lower Sorbian: pušćiś

• → Lithuanian: pũstyti

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пусти́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 84
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пусти́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “790”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 790