Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫsěnica

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

Probably from *ǫsъ.

Noun

*ǫsěnica f

1. caterpillar

Inflection

Declension of *ǫsěnica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ǫsěnica	*ǫsěnici	*ǫsěnicę̇
genitive	*ǫsěnicę̇	*ǫsěnicu	*ǫsěnicь
dative	*ǫsěnici	*ǫsěnicama	*ǫsěnicamъ
accusative	*ǫsěnicǫ	*ǫsěnici	*ǫsěnicę̇
instrumental	*ǫsěnicejǫ, *ǫsěnicǫ**	*ǫsěnicama	*ǫsěnicami
locative	*ǫsěnici	*ǫsěnicu	*ǫsěnicasъ, *ǫsěnicaxъ*
vocative	*ǫsěnice	*ǫsěnici	*ǫsěnicę̇

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: гу́сеница (gúsenica)
  • Ukrainian: гу́сениця (húsenycja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: юсеница (jusenica)
  • Bulgarian: гъсеница (gǎsenica)
  • Macedonian: гасеница (gasenica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гу̏сеница, гу̏сјеница

    Latin script: gȕsenica, gȕsjenica

  • Slovene: gosẹ̑nica (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: húsěnicě
    • Czech: housenice
  • Old Polish: gąsienica, wąsienica
    • Polish: gąsienica
  • Slovak: húsenica
  • Kashubian: wąsewnica
  • Polabian: vǫsănaićă
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: husańca
    • Lower Sorbian: guseńca

References

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