Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/doselě

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.

Most likely from univerbation of *do +‎ *se (demonstrative pronoun) +‎ *lě / *li. Descendants do not show agreement on the second element: some (South Slavic) have the masculine form *sь m, while others (East Slavic) have the neuter *se n.

*doselě^[1]

1. hitherto

• *dokolě
• *dotolě

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: доселѣ (doselě)
    • Old Ruthenian: до́селѣ (dóselě), досель (doselʹ), доселꙗ (doselja), досюль (dosjulʹ), досюлꙗ (dosjulja)
      • Belarusian: до́сыль (dósylʹ), дасы́ля (dasýlja), до́сюль (dósjulʹ), дасюль (dasjulʹ) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: до́сіль (dósilʹ)
    • Russian: досе́ле (doséle), досе́ль (dosélʹ), досе́лева (doséleva); досюль (dosjulʹ) (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Old East Slavic: досеѣ (dosejě)
    • Old Ruthenian: до́сѣ (dósě)
      • Ukrainian: до́сі (dósi); до́си (dósy) (dialectal)
        • → Russian: до́си (dósi) (dialectal)
    • Russian: до́се (dóse) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: доселѣ (doselě), досели (doseli)

    Glagolitic script: ⰴⱁⱄⰵⰾⱑ (doselě), ⰴⱁⱄⰵⰾⰻ (doseli)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: до̏сле̄, до̏слије, до̏сље

    Latin script: dȍslē, dȍslije, dȍslje

  • Slovene: doslȇ, doslȇj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dosel
  • Polish: dosiela (archaic, dialectal)
  • Slovak: dosiaľ
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: dosal (dialectal)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “досе́ле”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*do se/*do se lě”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 81