Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bujiti

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

Formed as *bujь (“vivid, outraged”) ‎ *-iti, reflecting Proto-Indo-European *bʰowH-éye-ti ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to inflate, to grow”). May have been influenced by the onomatopoeric Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, to storm”) (compare Proto-Slavic *buřa (“storm”), Proto-Slavic *buševati (“to bluster, to storm”)).

Verb

*bujiti impf (perfective *buniti)

1. (transitive) to drive mad
2. (intransitive) to go on a rampage
3. (intransitive) to grow, to spread rapidly

Conjugation

Conjugation of *bujiti, *buji, *bujitь (impf., -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*bujenьje	*bujiti	*bujitъ	*bujilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*bujenъ	*bujimъ
Active	*bujь	*buję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bujixъ	*buji	*buji	*bujǫ	*bujiši	*bujitь
Dual	*bujixově	*bujista	*bujiste	*bujivě	*bujita	*bujite
Plural	*bujixomъ	*bujiste	*bujišę	*bujimъ	*bujite	*bujętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*bujaaxъ	*bujaaše	*bujaaše	—	*buji	*buji
Dual	*bujaaxově	*bujaašeta	*bujaašete	*bujivě	*bujita	—
Plural	*bujaaxomъ	*bujaašete	*bujaaxǫ	*bujimъ	*bujite	—

Notes:
• (*)*bujivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

• *bujati (“to go on a rampage”)
• *bujevati (“to grow vividly”)
• *bujьnъ (“energetic, impetuous”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: обꙋити (obuiti)
  • Bulgarian: бу́я (búja), dial. бу́им (búim)
  • Macedonian: буи (bui)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бу́јити

    Latin script: bújiti

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bujit (dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bujiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 84
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “буя, буяя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 96