Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bučati

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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin from Proto-Indo-European *bew- or possibly *bʰewH- (“to grow”) + *-čati. Cognate with Lithuanian baũkti (“to roar”), Sanskrit बुक्कति (bukkati, “to bark”).

Verb

*bučàti impf^[1]^[2]

to roar, to drone, to clatter

Conjugation

Conjugation of *bučati, *buča, *bučitь (impf., -ě/i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*bučanьje	*bučati	*bučatъ	*bučalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*bučanъ	*bučimъ
Active	*bučavъ	*bučę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bučaxъ	*buča	*buča	*bučǫ	*bučiši	*bučitь
Dual	*bučaxově	*bučasta	*bučaste	*bučivě	*bučita	*bučite
Plural	*bučaxomъ	*bučaste	*bučašę	*bučimъ	*bučite	*bučętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bučaaxъ	*bučaaše	*bučaaše	—	*buči	*buči
Dual	*bučaaxově	*bučaašeta	*bučaašete	*bučivě	*bučita	—
Plural	*bučaaxomъ	*bučaašete	*bučaaxǫ	*bučimъ	*bučite	—

Related terms

*buka (“turmoil, uproar”)
- *bukati (iterative)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
  - Russian: буча́ть (bučátʹ) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: буча́ (bučá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: бу́чати
  
  Latin script: búčati
- Slovene: bučáti (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: bučeti
- Polabian: b'aucĕ
- Polish: buczeć
- Slovak: bučať
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: bycaś
  - Upper Sorbian: bučeć

Non-Slavic:
- → Albanian: buças

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bučàti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 67
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “bučati”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *bűčati”