Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pręslo

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 *pręsti (“to spin”) +‎ *-slo. Cognate with Latvian sprieslis, Old English sprindel.

Noun

*pręslo n

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Inflection

Declension of *pręslo (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pręslo	*pręslě	*pręsla
Accusative	*pręslo	*pręslě	*pręsla
Genitive	*pręsla	*pręslu	*pręslъ
Locative	*pręslě	*pręslu	*pręslěxъ
Dative	*pręslu	*pręsloma	*pręslomъ
Instrumental	pręslъmь, pręslomь^*	*pręsloma	*pręsly
Vocative	*pręslo	*pręslě	*pręsla

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

Descendants

Church Slavonic: прѧсло (pręslo) (Serbian)

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: прѧсло (pręslo)
  - Russian: пря́сло (prjáslo)
  - Ukrainian: пря́сло (prjáslo)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: пре̏слица
  Latin: prȅslica
- Slovene: prẹ́slo, prẹ́slica, preslica
West Slavic:
- Czech: přáslo, přeslice
- Polish: przęsło
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: přaslen

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “прясло”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. (1993), “прясть”, 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 79
Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902), “прѧсло”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 2: Л – П, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1719