Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bryzgati

Per ESSJa, likely of onomatopoeic origin, probably a dialectal variation of *brъzgati. A similar grade variation is observed in South-Central Slavic *prъskati : Northern Slavic *pryskati (“to spray”).

Morphologically equivalent of Proto-Slavic *brudъ (“mud, dirt”) / *brugъ (unattested) + *-skati, ultimately an extension of Proto-Indo-European *bʰrew- (“to brew”).

*brỳzgati impf (perfective *bryzgnǫti)^[1][2]

1. to sprinkle, to spray, to splatter

   Synonyms: *prъskati, *pryskati

2. to flow viscously

• *brъzgati (0-grade)

• *brudъ (“mud, dirt”) (possibly)
• *břuzga (“slush”) (possibly)
• *bruzgati (“to charge, to commit, to take a risk”) (possibly)
• *bryzgъ, *bryzga (“mucus, foam”)
• *bryždžati (“to itch, to irritate”)
• *bryskati (“to bound”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: бры́згаць (brýzhacʹ)
  • Russian: бры́згать (brýzgatʹ)
  • Ukrainian: бри́згати (brýzhaty), бри́зкати (brýzkaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бри́ждя (bríždja)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бри̏згати

    Latin script: brȉzgati

  • Slovene: brȋzgati
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: brýzhati
  • Polish: bryzgać
  • Slovak: brýzgať
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bryzgaś

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bryzgati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 66
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бриждя”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 78