Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wáśka

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Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate Proto-Germanic *wahsą (“wax”). Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *wokso, *wos-ko- (“wax”), *weg- (“to weave”), or *webʰ- (“to weave”). It could instead be from a pre-Indo-European substrate.

Noun

*wáśka n

  1. wax

Inflection

Fixed accent.

Declension of *wáśka (o-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *wáśka *wáśkai *wáśkāˀ
Accusative *wáśka *wáśkai *wáśkāˀ
Genitive *wáśkā *wáśkāu(ˀ) *wáśkōn
Locative *wáśkai *wáśkāu(ˀ) *wáśkaišu
Dative *wáśkōi *wáśkamā(ˀ) *wáśkamas
Instrumental *wáśkōˀ *wáśkamāˀ *wáśkōis
Vocative *wáśka *wáśkai *wáśkāˀ

Descendants

  • Latvian: vasks
  • Lithuanian: vãškas
  • Proto-Slavic: *vòskъ (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1180”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1180
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “was”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*voskъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 529: “*woṣko”
  4. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vaškas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 493: “*woṣko”
  5. ^ Nikolajev, S. L. (2012) “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 138: “*vôskъ, *võskъ ― *vôsk, *võsk”
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