Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/volsъ
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Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- (i-stem): *vȏlsь
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wálśas, *wálśis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wolh₁ḱos, *h₂wolh₁ḱis, from the root *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”). Cognate with Sanskrit वल्श (válśa, “twig, sprout”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (varəsa, “hair (on the head)”), Old Persian (vars), Persian گرس (gors, “curled hair”), Northern Kurdish pirç (“hair”) and Lithuanian valai̇̃. Akin to Old Armenian վարս (vars), an Iranian borrowing.
Noun
*vȏlsъ m
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *vȏlsъ | *vȏlsa | *vȏlsi |
| genitive | *vȏlsa | *volsù | *võlsъ |
| dative | *vȏlsu | *volsomà | *volsòmъ |
| accusative | *vȏlsъ | *vȏlsa | *vȏlsy |
| instrumental | *vȏlsъmь, *vȏlsomь* | *volsomà | *volsý |
| locative | *vȏlsě | *volsù | *volsě̃xъ |
| vocative | *volse | *vȏlsa | *vȏlsi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
See also
Related terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- → Russian: влас (vlas) (archaic or poetic)
- Bulgarian: влас (vlas) (archaic)
- Macedonian: влас (vlas)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: lȃs (tonal orthography) (singular and dual only)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Proto-Slavic/volsъ”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 676
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “волос”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*volsъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 526
Further reading
- В. В. Мартынов (1981) “Балто-славяно-иранские языковые отношения и глоттогенез славян: kosa – volsъ 'волос человека (на голове)'.”, in Балто-славянские исследования. 1980., Moscow: Nauka, page 23