Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/puxnǫti

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 *-nǫti, 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”).

*puxnǫti

1. to swell

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пꙋхнꙋти (puxnuti) (rare)
    • Belarusian: пу́хнуць (púxnucʹ)
    • Russian: пу́хнуть (púxnutʹ, “to swell”)
    • Ukrainian: пу́хнути (púxnuty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пу́хна (púhna, “to cover with smoke”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу́хнути (“to blow”), 1sg. пу̑хне̄м

    Latin: púhnuti (“to blow”), 1sg. pȗhnēm

  • Slovene: púhniti (“to blow, to blast”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pȗhnem (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: puchnout (“to swell”)
  • Polish: puchnąć (“to swell”)
  • Slovak: puchnúť (“to swell”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: puchnyć (“to sweat”)

• 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
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*puxnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 423
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пу́хнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress