Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pyxati

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.

Iterative counter-part of *puxati (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pews- (“to puff”). The -x- is due to RUKI law. Cognate with Sanskrit पुष्यति (púṣyati, “to thrive”) and akin to Ancient Greek φῡσᾰ́ω (phūsáō, “to blow, to swell”), Lithuanian puškuoti (“to puff”), Latvian pūst (“to blow, to whiff”).

*pyxati impf (perfective *pyxnǫti)^[1][2]

1. to breath heavily
2. to groan, to puff

Reanalyzed in later times among some descendants as:

• *pъxъtěti (“to puff”)
• *pъškati (“to groan”)
• *puxati (“to blow”)

• *sъpyxati (“to lose breath (for animals) / air (for objects, e.g. ball or baloon)”)
• *jьzpyxati (“to exhale air heavily”)
• *vъpyxati (“to inhale air heavily”)
• *zapyxati (“to get difficulty breathing”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: пы́хаць (pýxacʹ)
  • Russian: пы́хать (pýxatʹ), dial. пыха́ть (pyxátʹ)
  • Ukrainian: пи́хати (pýxaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пи́хам (píham)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пихати

    Latin script: pihati

  • Slovene: píhati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pýchati
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pychaś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пыхать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пихам³”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 268