Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nosъ

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.

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nasús (“nose”).

*nȍsъ m

1. nose

• *nozdrà (“nostril”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: носъ (nosŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: носъ (nos)
      • Belarusian: нос (nos)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: нус (nus)
      • Ukrainian: ніс (nis)
    • Russian: нос (nos)
  • Old Novgorodian: носъ (nosŭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: носъ (nosŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱀⱁⱄⱏ (nosŭ)

    • Bulgarian: нос (nos)
    • Macedonian: нос (nos)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: но̑с

    Latin script: nȏs

  • Slovene: nọ̑s (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: nos
    • Czech: nos
  • Old Polish: nos
    • Polish: nos
    • Silesian: nos
  • Old Slovak: nos
    • Pannonian Rusyn: нос (nos)
    • Slovak: nos
  • Polabian: nös
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: nos
    • Slovincian: nôs
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: nós
    • Lower Sorbian: nos

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “нос”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress