Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/volsъ

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

Alternative forms

(i-stem): *vȏlsь

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *válśas, *válśis, from Proto-Indo-European *wolḱos, *wolḱis, from the root *wel- (“hair; wool”). Cognate with Sanskrit वल्श (válśa, “twig, sprout”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀‎ (var^əsa, “hair (on the head)”), Old Persian [script needed] (vars), Persian ‎ (gurs, “curled hair”), Northern Kurdish pirç (“hair”) and Lithuanian valaĩ. Akin to Old Armenian վարս (vars), an Iranian borrowing.

Noun

*vȏlsъ m

hair (pigmented filament)
Synonym: *voldь

Inflection

Declension of *vȏlsъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*vȏlsъ	*vȏlsa	*vȏlsi
Accusative	*vȏlsъ	*vȏlsa	*vȏlsy
Genitive	*vȏlsa	*volsù	*võlsъ
Locative	*vȏlsě	*volsù	*volsě̃xъ
Dative	*vȏlsu	*volsomà	*volsòmъ
Instrumental	vȏlsъmь, vȏlsomь^*	*volsomà	*volsý
Vocative	*volse	*vȏlsa	*vȏlsi

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

Related terms

*volkno (“fibre”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: волосъ (volosŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: волосъ (volos)
    - Belarusian: во́лас (vólas)
    - Ukrainian: во́лос (vólos)
  - Russian: во́лос (vólos)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: власъ (vlasŭ)
  Glagolitic: ⰲⰾⰰⱄⱏ (vlasŭ)
  - → Russian: влас (vlas) (archaic or poetic)
- Bulgarian: влас (vlas)
- Macedonian: влас (vlas)
- Serbo-Croatian: vlȃs, вла̑с
- Slovene: lȃs (tonal orthography) (singular and dual only)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vlas
  - Czech: vlas
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): vlas
- Kashubian: włos
- Old Polish: włos
  - Polish: włos
- Slovak: vlas
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: włós
  - Lower Sorbian: włos

References

Gluhak, Alemko (1993) Hrvatski etimološki rječnik (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, page 676
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “волос”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*volsъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 526