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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/maslo
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Related to *màzati (“to oil, to anoint, to smear”). Generally reconstructed as *màz-slo, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mōˀź-sla.
- Derksen: Probably cognate with Lithuanian mė́šlas (“manure”), Latvian mȩ̂sls (“manure”). Sometimes instead derived from earlier Proto-Slavic *màz-tlo.
- See *màzati.
Noun
*màslo n[1][2]
- oil
- butter
Inflection
Declension of *màslo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *màslo | *màslě | *màsla |
Accusative | *màslo | *màslě | *màsla |
Genitive | *màsla | *màslu | *màslъ |
Locative | *màslě | *màslu | *màslě̄xъ |
Dative | *màslu | *màsloma | *màslomъ |
Instrumental | *màslъmь, *màslomь* | *màsloma | *màslȳ |
Vocative | *màslo | *màslě | *màsla |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *màslěnъ
- *màslěnica
- *màslьko
Related terms
- *mȃstь (“ointment”)
- *màzati (“to oil, to anoint, to smear”)
- *mȃzь, *mȃzъ (“grease, ointment”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: масло (maslo)
- Belarusian: ма́сла (másla)
- Russian: ма́сло (máslo)
- → Mongolian: масло (maslo)
- Ukrainian: ма́сло (máslo)
- Old Novgorodian: ма́сло (máslo)
- Old East Slavic: масло (maslo)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: масло (maslo)
- Glagolitic: ⰿⰰⱄⰾⱁ (maslo)
- Bulgarian: ма́сло (máslo)
- Macedonian: масло (maslo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ма̏сло
- Latin: mȁslo
- Chakavian (Vrgada): mȁslo
- Chakavian (Orbanići): mȁslo
- Slovene: máslo (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: máslo
- Czech: máslo
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): máslo
- Moravian (Mistřice): másu̯o
- Czech: máslo
- Kashubian: masło
- Old Polish: masło
- Polish: masło
- Slovak: maslo
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: masło
- Lower Sorbian: masło
- Old Czech: máslo
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “масло”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “ма́сло”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 513
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*maslo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 230
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*màslo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 302: “n. o (a) ‘oil, butter’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “maslo masla”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 137, 177; PR 132)”