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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tesla
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Proto-Slavic
Alternative forms
- *teslò
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ-(dʰ)lo-, from *tetḱ-. Morphologically *tes- + *-slo (“instrumental suffix”) or *tes- + *-sla.
Cognate with Proto-Germanic *þehslō (“adze”).
Noun
*tesla f
- adze
Declension
Declension of *tesla (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *tesla | *teslě | *tesly |
| Accusative | *teslǫ | *teslě | *tesly |
| Genitive | *tesly | *teslu | *teslъ |
| Locative | *teslě | *teslu | *teslasъ, *teslaxъ* |
| Dative | *teslě | *teslama | *teslamъ |
| Instrumental | *teslojǫ, *teslǫ** | *teslama | *teslami |
| Vocative | *teslo | *teslě | *tesly |
* -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.
** 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).
** 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).
Related terms
- *tesati (“hew”)
Descendants
- Church Slavonic: тесла (tesla) (Russian)
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: тесла (tesla)
- Belarusian: цясла́ (cjaslá)
- Russian: тесло (teslo)
- Old East Slavic: тесла (tesla)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: тесла́ (teslá)
- Macedonian: тесла (tesla)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: те̏сла
- Latin: tȅsla
- Slovene: tésla
- West Slavic:
- Czech: tesla (archaic)
- Polish: ciosła
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: teslă
- From *teslo
- East Slavic:
- Russian: тесло́ (tesló)
- Ukrainian: тесло́ (tesló)
- South Slavic:
- Slovene: teslo
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “тесла”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “тес”, 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 240
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 491
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “тесла”, 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 3: Р – Ꙗ и дополненія, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 952
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “тесла”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “тесать”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.