Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/postъ

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.

Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *fastā, *fastu (“fast, fasting”).

*postъ m

1. fast (period of restricted eating)

• *postiti (“to fast”)
• *postьnъ (“lean”, adj.)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: постъ (postŭ)
    • Belarusian: пост (post)
    • Russian: пост (post)
    • Ukrainian: піст (pist)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: піст (pist)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: постъ (postŭ)

  • Bulgarian: пост (post)
  • Macedonian: пост (post)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̑ст

    Latin script: pȏst

  • Slovene: pȍst (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: půst
  • Kashubian: pòst
  • Polish: post
  • Slovak: pôst
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: spót
    • Upper Sorbian: póst

Non-Slavic:

• → Romanian: post (“fasting”)
• → Yiddish: פּאָסט (post)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пост”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пост¹”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 543