Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lososь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lososь

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *laśas, from Proto-Indo-European *loḱs-os- (“salmon, trout”)[1] or *laḱs-[2]. Baltic cognates include Latvian lasis, Lithuanian lašišà, Old Prussian *lalasso (misspelling of lasasso). Indo-European cognates include Proto-Germanic *lahsaz, Ossetian лӕсӕг (læsæg, “salmon”), and Tocharian B laks m (“fish”).

Noun

*lososь m[3]

1. salmon

Declension

Declension of *lososь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*lososь	*lososa	*lososi
Accusative	*lososь	*lososa	*lososę̇
Genitive	*lososa	*lososu	*lososь
Locative	*lososi	*lososu	*lososixъ
Dative	*lososu	*lososema	*lososemъ
Instrumental	*lososьmь, *lososemь*	*lososema	*lososi
Vocative	*lososu	*lososa	*lososi

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *lososina
• *lososьjь (adjective)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лосось (lososĭ), лосъ (losŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: лосо́сь (losósʹ)
      • Belarusian: ласо́сь (lasósʹ)
      • Rusyn: ло́сос (lósos)
      • Ukrainian: лосо́сь (losósʹ)
    • Russian: лосо́сь (losósʹ), ло́сось (lósosʹ)
      • → Yakut: лосось (losos’)
  • Old Novgorodian: лосось (lososĭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: лосос (losos)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ло̏сос, ло̏с

    Latin: lȍsos, lȍs

  • Slovene: lọ̑sos (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: losos
    • Czech: losos
  • Kashubian: łosos
  • Polish: łosoś
  • Slovak: losos
  • Slovincian: lʉ̀ɵsɵs
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: łosos
    • Upper Sorbian: łosos

• Non-Slavic languages:
  • Hungarian: lazac
  • Romanian: lostriță (probably)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lososь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 88

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lososь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 285: “PIE *loḱs-os-”
2. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “lasis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
3. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lososь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 285: “m. jo ‘salmon’”