Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫčiti

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

Alternative forms

*pǫťi

Etymology

Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *punHk-; cognate with Latin pānus (“tumor”). Vasmer adds as cognate Persian (pang, “bunch of dates”), but alternatively suggests that the verb is onomatopoeic.

Verb

*pǫ̀čiti

to swell, to burst

Inflection

Conjugation of *pǫčiti, *pǫči, *pǫčitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm a)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*pǫčenьje	*pǫčiti	*pǫčitъ	*pǫčilъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*pǫčenъ	*pǫčimъ
Active	*pǫčь	*pǫčę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pǫčixъ	*pǫči	*pǫči	*pǫčǫ	*pǫčiši	*pǫčitь
Dual	*pǫčixově	*pǫčista	*pǫčiste	*pǫčivě	*pǫčita	*pǫčite
Plural	*pǫčixomъ	*pǫčiste	*pǫčišę	*pǫčimъ	*pǫčite	*pǫčętь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*pǫčaaxъ	*pǫčaaše	*pǫčaaše	—	*pǫči	*pǫči
Dual	*pǫčaaxově	*pǫčaašeta	*pǫčaašete	*pǫčivě	*pǫčita	—
Plural	*pǫčaaxomъ	*pǫčaašete	*pǫčaaxǫ	*pǫčimъ	*pǫčite	—

(*)*pǫčivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle

Related terms

*pǫčati (“to bud, to germinate”)
*pǫčina (“abyss, open sea”)
*pǫgy, *pǫgъvica (“knob, button”)
*pǫkati (“to burst?”)
*pǫknǫti (“to burst?”)
*pǫkъ (“bud”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: пу́чить (púčitʹ, “to become swollen”)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пу̏ћи (“to burst, to crack, to shoot”), 1sg. пу̏кне̄м
  
  Latin: pȕći (“to burst, to crack, to shoot”), 1sg. pȕknēm
- Slovene: pọ́čiti (“to burst, to crack, to hit”) (tonal orthography), 1sg. pọ̑čim (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Polish: pęczyć

References

Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “пук”, 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 82
Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pǫčiti; *pǫkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пу́кать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress