Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bъxъ

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

Related via ablaut to Proto-Slavic *buxati (“to bang, to strike”).

Noun

*bъxъ m (South Slavic)

1. cover-up, concealment, denial (of information, truth)

Declension

Declension of *bъxъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bъxъ	*bъxa	*bъśi
genitive	*bъxa	*bъxu	*bъxъ
dative	*bъxu	*bъxoma	*bъxomъ
accusative	*bъxъ	*bъxa	*bъxy
instrumental	*bъxъmь, *bъxomь*	*bъxoma	*bъxy
locative	*bъśě	*bъxu	*bъśěxъ
vocative	*bъše	*bъxa	*bъśi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *bъxъmъ (“entirety”)
• *bъxъtъ
  • *bъxъtati (“to toil, to drudge, to hit”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: бъхъма (bŭxŭma, “totally, entirely”) (adverb)
  • Bulgarian: бъх (bǎh) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ба̏х

    Latin script: bȁh

Further reading

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бъх”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 105
• Skok, Petar (1971) “bah”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 91