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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pojasъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *po- + *jasъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *yōˀs-, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s-. Cognate with Lithuanian júosta (“girdle”), Latvian jôsta (“girdle”), Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr, “girdle”), Ancient Greek ζωστός (zōstós, “girdled”), Avestan 𐬫𐬁𐬵- (yāh-, “girdle”), 𐬫𐬁𐬯𐬙𐬀 (yāsta, “girdled”), Albanian gjesh (“to gird”).
Noun
*pȍjāsъ m[1]
- girdle
Inflection
Declension of *pȍjāsъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *pȍjāsъ | *pȍjāsa | *pȍjāsi |
Accusative | *pȍjāsъ | *pȍjāsa | *pȍjāsy |
Genitive | *pȍjāsa | *pojāsù | *pojãsъ |
Locative | *pȍjāsě | *pojāsù | *pojāsě̃xъ |
Dative | *pȍjāsu | *pojāsomà | *pojāsòmъ |
Instrumental | *pȍjāsъmь, *pȍjāsomь* | *pojāsomà | *pojāsý |
Vocative | *pojase | *pȍjāsa | *pȍjāsi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *pojasati (“to gird”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: поꙗсъ (pojasŭ), поꙗсьница (pojasĭnica)
- Belarusian: по́яс (pójas)
- Russian: по́яс (pójas)
- Ukrainian: по́яс (pójas)
- Old East Slavic: поꙗсъ (pojasŭ), поꙗсьница (pojasĭnica)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: поꙗсъ (pojasŭ)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: по́яс (pójas)
- Macedonian: појас (pojas)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏ја̄с
- Latin: pȍjās
- Chakavian (Vrgada): på̄s, gen. på̄sa; pȃs (“belt, waist, stripe”), gen. pȃsa
- Slovene: pȃs (tonal orthography), gen. pȃsa, pasȗ (tonal orthography); pojȃs (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: pás
- Czech: pás
- Polish: pas, pás
- → Belarusian: пас (pas)
- → Yiddish: פּאַס (pas)
- Slovak: pás
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: pas
- Lower Sorbian: pas
- Old Czech: pás
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “по́яс”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “по́яс”, 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 64
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pȍjāsъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 409: “m. o (c) ‘girdle’”