Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jasli

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jasli

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Cannot derive from *ěsti. If it did, why did ě > ja in this word but not in the other?”)

Noun

*jàsli f pl[1]

1. (plural only) manger
2. (plural only) crèche, nursery

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Declension of *jasli (i-stem, plural only)

	Plural
Nominative	*jasli
Accusative	*jasli
Genitive	*jaslьjь, *jasli*
Locative	*jaslьxъ
Dative	*jaslьmъ
Instrumental	*jaslьmi
Vocative	*jasli

^* 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).

Alternative forms

• *ěslo
• *ěsla

Descendants

• Church Slavonic: ꙗсли (jasli) (Russian), ꙗсли pl (jasli)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ꙗсли (jasli)
    • Belarusian: я́слі pl (jásli)
    • Russian: я́сли pl (jásli)
    • Ukrainian: я́сла n pl (jásla)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ꙗсли (jasli)
  • Bulgarian: я́сла f (jásla), я́сли pl (jásli)
  • Macedonian: јасли pl (jasli)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ја̏сле f pl, ја̏сли f pl

    Latin: jasle, jasla f, jȁsla pl, jȁslo n

  • Slovene: jȃsli pl (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jěsli pl
    • Czech: jesle pl, jesli?, jaseľ, jaseľe, jaśle pl
  • Polish: jasła pl, jasły pl, jasło pl
  • Slovak: jasle pl, jasle pl
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jasla pl, jasła
    • Lower Sorbian: jasła n pl

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ясли”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. (1993), “ясли”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 473
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ědsla, *ědslo, *ědslь, *ědsli”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 44
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “ясли”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “ꙗсли”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3: Р – Ꙗ и дополненія, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1666

References

1. Olander, Thomas (2001), “jasli”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a krybbe (PR 133)”