Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/olsь

< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic

Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/olsь

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 *alśis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ól-ḱ-is ~ h₁él-ḱ-is, from *h₁el- (“deer”). Cognate with English elk.

Noun

*ȏlsь m[1][2]

1. elk

Declension

The word is only attested as a soft o-stem in the descendants, but the lack of both iotation and the progressive palatalization point to an original i-stem paradigm.

Declension of *ȏlsь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*ȏlsь	*ȏlsi	*ȏlsьjē, *ȏlšē*
Accusative	*ȏlsь	*ȏlsi	*ȏlsi
Genitive	*olsí	*olsьjù, *olšu*	*olsь̀jь
Locative	*olsí	*olsьjù, *olšu*	*ȏlsьxъ
Dative	*ȏlsi	*olsьmà	*ȏlsьmъ
Instrumental	*ȏlsьmь	*olsьmà	*olsьmì
Vocative	*olsi	*ȏlsi	*ȏlsьjē, *ȏlšē*

^* 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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лось (losĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: лось (losʹ), лѡсь (lôsʹ), лосъ (los)
      • Belarusian: лось (losʹ); лусь (lusʹ), лэсь (lesʹ) (dialectal)
      • Rusyn: лось (losʹ)
      • Ukrainian: лось (losʹ)
    • Russian: лось (losʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: лос (los)
  • Macedonian: лос (los)
  • Serbo-Croatian: lȍs
  • Slovene: lọ̑s (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: los
  • Kashubian: łos
  • Polish: łoś
  • Slovak: los

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, Zhuravlev, A. F., editors (2005), “*olsь/*olsъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 79
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “лось”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ȏlsь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370: “m. jo (c) ‘elk’”
2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “lọ̑s”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “pslovan. *ȏlsь”