Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/osa
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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
From earlier *vosa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wápsāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *wóps.
Noun
Declension
Declension of *osà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *osà | *òsě | *osỳ |
| genitive | *osỳ | *osù | *òsъ |
| dative | *osě̀ | *osàma | *osàmъ |
| accusative | *osǫ̀ | *òsě | *osỳ |
| instrumental | *osòjǫ, *òsǫ** | *osàma | *osàmī |
| locative | *osě̀ | *osù | *osàsъ, *osàxъ* |
| vocative | *oso | *òsě | *osỳ |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
See also
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “оса́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Dybo, Vladimir A., Zamyatina, Galina I., Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40: “4. слав. *osa̍, acc. *osǫ̍ ― 4. slav. *osa̍, acc. *osǫ̍”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*osà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 377: “f. ā (b) ‘wasp’”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vapsva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “*osà”
- ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53; 259: “*osa̍”