Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫzlъ

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

Probably related to *vęzati. Possibly cognate with Lithuanian ą́žuolas, Latvian ozols, Old Prussian ansonis (“oak”).

Noun

*ǫ̀zlъ m

knot

Inflection

Declension of *ǫ̀zlъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ǫ̀zlъ	*ǫ̀zla	*ǫ̀zli
genitive	*ǫ̀zla	*ǫ̀zlu	*ǫ̀zlъ
dative	*ǫ̀zlu	*ǫ̀zloma	*ǫ̀zlomъ
accusative	*ǫ̀zlъ	*ǫ̀zla	*ǫ̀zly
instrumental	ǫ̀zlъmь, ǫ̀zlomь^*	*ǫ̀zloma	*ǫ̀zlȳ
locative	*ǫ̀zlě	*ǫ̀zlu	*ǫ̀zlě̄xъ
vocative	*ǫ̀zle	*ǫ̀zla	*ǫ̀zli

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: узълъ (uzŭlŭ)
  - Belarusian: ву́зел (vúzjel)
  - Russian: у́зел (úzel)
  - Ukrainian: ву́зол (vúzol)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: ѫзлъ (ǫzlŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱘⰸⰾⱏ (ǫzlŭ)
- Bulgarian: въ́зел (vǎ́zel), въ́ндзил (vǎ́ndzil) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: јазол (jazol)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: у̏зао
  
  Latin script: ȕzao
- Slovene: vôzəl (tonal orthography), ôzəl (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: uzel
  - Czech: uzel
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): huzel
    - Moravian (Mistřice): uzeu̯
- Polabian: vǫzål
- Old Polish: węzeł
  - Polish: węzeł
  - → Belarusian: ве́нзель (vjénzjelʹ)
  - → Russian: ве́нзель (vénzelʹ)
  - → Ukrainian: ве́нзель (vénzelʹ)
- Pannonian Rusyn: ґузел (guzel)
- Slovak: uzol
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: wuzoł

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ǫ̀zlъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 399
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “узел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress