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 (imperfective *puščati)

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:
  • Old Czech: pustiti
    • Czech: pustit
  • Polabian: paustĕt
  • Polish: puścić
  • Slovak: pustiť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pušćić, pušćeć
    • Lower Sorbian: pušćiś

• → Lithuanian: pũstyti

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “пусти́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (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 (in Russian), Moscow: Progress