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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kusъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Action/result noun of *kusati, *kusiti (“to probe, to taste”) + *-ъ, of Germanic origin. In daughter languages where *ǫ > *u, superseded by forms of native Proto-Slavic *kǫsъ (“piece, bite”).
Noun
*kusъ m
- probe, trial
- Synonym: *opytъ
- (by abstraction) taste, savour
Declension
Declension of *kusъ (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *kusъ | *kusa | *kusi |
Accusative | *kusъ | *kusa | *kusy |
Genitive | *kusa | *kusu | *kusъ |
Locative | *kusě | *kusu | *kusěxъ |
Dative | *kusu | *kusoma | *kusomъ |
Instrumental | *kusъmь, *kusomь* | *kusoma | *kusy |
Vocative | *kuse | *kusa | *kusi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *jьzkusъ (“trail”)
- *vъkusъ, *okusъ (“taste, savour”)
- *zakusъka (“snack”)
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: искоусъ (iskusŭ), въкоусъ (vŭkusŭ)
- → Russian: вкус (vkus)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: вкус (vkus)
- ⇒ Macedonian: вкус (vkus)
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̀кус
- Latin: ùkus
- ⇒ Slovene: okȗs
- ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: искоусъ (iskusŭ), въкоусъ (vŭkusŭ)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “вкус”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “кусам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 152
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “okȗs”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si