Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/puxati

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pauš- + Proto-Slavic *-ati, from Proto-Indo-European *pews-. Cognate with Lithuanian pũsti (“to blow”), 1sg. puciù, pùsti (“to inflate”), 1sg. puntù, pūslė̃ (“blister, bladder”), Norwegian føysa (“to swell”), Sanskrit पुष्यति (púṣyati, “to thrive”), Latin pustula (“bubble”), possibly Ancient Greek φῡσάω (phūsáō, “to snort”), φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows, bubble”), Old Armenian փուք (pʻukʻ, “breath”).

*puxàti impf^[1][2]

1. to blow? to swell?

• *puxlъ (“chubby? empty?”)
• *puxnǫti (“to blow”)
• *pyxati (“to puff, to breath heavily, to smoke”)
• *puxъ

• *orzpuxati

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: пухати (puxati)
  • Bulgarian: пу́ша (púša)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу́хати

    Latin script: púhati

  • Slovene: pūhati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: puchati
    • Czech: napuchati, opuchati
  • Polish: puchać
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: puchać
    • Lower Sorbian: puchaś

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пу́хнуть”, 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 85
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пу́хнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2008), “*orzpuxati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 34 (*orzmajь – *orzstegajь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 184