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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/usta
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).
Noun
*ūstà n pl[1]
- lips, mouth
Declension
Declension of *ūstà (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b, plural only)
| Plural | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | *ūstà |
| Accusative | *ūstà |
| Genitive | *ũstъ |
| Locative | *ũstěxъ |
| Dative | *ūstòmъ |
| Instrumental | *ũsty |
| Vocative | *ūstà |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *ustàtъ (“having big mouth; figr. chatty, garrulous”)
- *ustьje (“mouth (of a river)”)
- *čeľustь (“jaw”)
- *ustьna (“lip”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ву́сны (vúsny)
- Russian: уста́ (ustá)
- Rusyn: уста (usta)
- Ukrainian: вуста́ (vustá), уста́ (ustá)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: оуста (usta)
- Bulgarian: уста́ (ustá)
- Macedonian: уста (usta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у́ста
- Latin: ústa
- Slovene: ústa (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: usta
- Czech: ústa
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): husta
- Czech: ústa
- Kashubian: ùsta
- Polabian: vaustă
- Old Polish: usta
- Polish: usta
- Slovak: ústa
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wusta
- Old Czech: usta
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “уста”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 509