Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polsa

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polsa

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 *palśā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *falgō.

Noun

*polsà f[1]

1. strip

Declension

Declension of *polsà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*polsà	*pȏlsě	*pȏlsy
Accusative	*pȏlsǫ	*pȏlsě	*pȏlsy
Genitive	*polsý	*polsù	*põlsъ
Locative	*pȏlsě	*polsù	*polsàsъ, *polsàxъ*
Dative	*polsě̀	*polsàma	*polsàmъ
Instrumental	*polsojǫ́	*polsàma	*polsàmi
Vocative	*polso	*pȏlsě	*pȏlsy

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: паласа́ (palasá)
  • Russian: полоса́ (polosá)
  • Ukrainian: полоса́ (polosá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пласа (plasa)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰾⰰⱄⰰ (plasa)

  • Bulgarian: пла́са (plása)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: пла̏са

    Latin: plȁsa

  • Slovene: plása (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: plasa
    • Czech: plasa
  • Polish: płosa

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “полоса́”, 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), “*polsà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 411: “f. ā (c) ʻstripʼ”