Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/trьstь

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.

Unclear, perhaps:

1. from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₁- (“stiff”) as Proto-Germanic *staraz (“stiff”), Latin strēnuus (“brisk”), from which root with extension *(s)treg- (“rigid, stiff”) from which Proto-Germanic *strakaz (“firm, rigid”)
2. from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“stretching”)

*trьstь or *trъstь f

1. reed, cane
2. cane stick

• Old East Slavic: трьсть (trĭstĭ), тръсть (trŭstĭ)
  • Belarusian:
    • ⇒ Belarusian: трыснёг (trysnjóh)
  • Russian: тресть (trestʹ), трость (trostʹ)
    • ⇒ Russian: тростни́к (trostník), тро́стка (tróstka), трости́на (trostína)
  • Ukrainian: трость (trostʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: трьсть (trĭstĭ), тръсть (trŭstĭ)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Bulgarian: тряст (trjast), тръст (trǎst)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: тръстика (trǎstika)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: трска (trska)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тр̑ст,

    Latin script: tȓst

    • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

      Latin script: tȑska,

      Cyrillic script: тр̏ска,

  • Slovene: tȓst (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: trest
    • Czech: tresť
      • ⇒ Czech: třtina
  • ⇒ Kashubian: strzëna
  • Old Polish: treść, trześć
    • Polish: treść
  • Slovak: trsť
  • Sorbian:
    • ⇒ Lower Sorbian: sćina
    • ⇒ Upper Sorbian: sćina

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “трость”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress