Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/Jaroslavъ

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.

From *jȃrъ (“furious”) +‎ *-o- +‎ *slàva (“glory, fame”).

*Jaroslàvъ m (feminine *Jaroslàva)

1. a male given name, Yaroslav

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: Ꙗросла́въ (Jaroslávŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: Ꙗросла́въ (Jarosláv) (15th cent.)
      • Belarusian: Ярасла́ў (Jarasláŭ)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: Яросла́в (Jarosláv)
      • Ukrainian: Яросла́в (Jarosláv)
        • ⇒ Ukrainian: Я́рош (Jároš)
    • Russian: Яросла́в (Jarosláv)
    • ⇒ Old East Slavic: Ꙗросла́вль (Jaroslávlĭ) (toponym)
      • Russian: Яросла́вль (Jaroslávlʹ)
      • → Old Novgorodian: Ꙗрославль (Jaroslavlĭ) (13th cent.)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: Ꙗрославъ (Jaroslavŭ)
    • Bulgarian: Яросла́в (Jarosláv) (obsolete)
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: Jaroslav (14th cent.)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: Ја̏рослав

      Latin script: Jȁroslav

  • Slovene: Jaroslav
  • → Alpine Slavs: Jerazlaw (12th cent.)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: Jaroslav
    • Czech: Jaroslav
  • Old Polish: Jarosław, Jerosław
    • Polish: Jarosław
  • Old Slovak: Jaroslav
    • Pannonian Rusyn: Ярослав (Jaroslav)
    • Slovak: Jaroslav
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: Jarosław

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*jaroslavъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 176
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “Яросла́в”, in Етимологічний словник української мови (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 553