Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫsъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫsъ

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 *vǫsъ < *vǫdsъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wánsa, from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰsom, s-expansion of root *wendʰ- (“hair, wool, beard”).

Noun

*ǫ̃sъ m[1]

1. hair of a moustache
2. (in the plural) moustache

Declension

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*ǫ̃sъ	*ǭsà	*ǭsì
Accusative	*ǫ̃sъ	*ǭsà	*ǭsỳ
Genitive	*ǭsà	*ǭsù	*ǫ̃sъ
Locative	*ǭsě̀	*ǭsù	*ǫ̃sěxъ
Dative	*ǭsù	*ǭsòma	*ǭsòmъ
Instrumental	*ǭsъ̀mь, *ǭsòmь*	*ǭsòma	*ǫ̃sy
Vocative	*ǫse	*ǭsà	*ǭsì

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

Derived terms

• *ǫsiti (“to sulk”)
• *ǫsěnica (“caterpillar”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: вус (vus), ву́сы (vúsy)
  • Russian: ус (us), усы́ (usý)
  • Ukrainian: вус (vus)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: въс (vǎs)
  • Macedonian:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Unspecified:

    Unspecified:

  • Slovene: vǫs, vosi
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: vous, vousy, fous, fousy
    • Moravian (Mistřice): fús
  • Old Polish: wąs
    • Polish: wąs
  • Slovak: fúz, fúzy
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wusy
    • Upper Sorbian: wusy

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ус”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ǫ́sъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 386