Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/postъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/postъ

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

Borrowed from Old High German fasta[1], from Proto-Germanic *fastuz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂(s)- (“to guard, to hold onto”).

Noun

*postъ m[1][2][3]

1. fast (period of restricted eating)

Inflection

Declension of *pòstъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pòstъ	*postà	*postì
Accusative	*pòstъ	*postà	*postỳ
Genitive	*postà	*postù	*pòstъ
Locative	*postě̀	*postù	*pòstěxъ
Dative	*postù	*postòma	*postòmъ
Instrumental	*postъ̀mь, *postòmь*	*postòma	*pòsty
Vocative	*poste	*postà	*postì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *postiti (“to fast”)
• *postьnъ (“lean”, adj.)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: постъ (postŭ)
    • Russian: пост (post)
    • Ukrainian: піст (pist)
    • Rusyn: піст (pist)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: постъ (postŭ)

  • Bulgarian: пост (post)
  • Macedonian: пост (post)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: по̑ст

    Latin: pȏst

  • Slovene: pȍst (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: půst
  • Polish: post
  • Slovak: pôst
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: spót
    • Upper Sorbian: póst

Non-Slavic:

• → Romanian: post (“fasting”)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пост”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov I., Račeva M., Todorov T., editor (1996), “пост¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 543

References

1. Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎ (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 135: “PSl. *postъ ‘fast, Lent’ (m. o-stem), ap B”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “postъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b faste (PR 134)”
3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “post”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “stcslovan. postъ [...], prevzeto iz stvnem. fasta”