Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ašutь

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

Uncertain. Possibly from *a- +‎ *šutъ +‎ *-ь.

Noun

*ašutь f

1. vainness

Adverb

*ašutь

1. in vain

Derived terms

adjectives

• *ašutьnъ

Related terms

adjectives

• (possibly) *šustrъ (“quick, agile”)

nouns

• (possibly) *šutъka f (“joke”)

verbs

• (possibly) *šustati pf
• (possibly) *šustnǫti impf
• (possibly) *šutiti impf (“to joke, to jest”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ашоуть (ašutĭ), ашоутъ (ašutŭ), ашють (ašjutĭ), ашютъ (ašjutŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰰⱎⱆⱅⱐ (ašutĭ), ⰰⱎⱆⱅⱏ (ašutŭ), ⰰⱎⱓⱅⱐ (ašjutĭ), ⰰⱎⱓⱅⱏ (ašjutŭ)

    • Church Slavonic: ашоуть (ašutĭ), ашють (ašjutĭ), ошоуть (ošutĭ), ошють (ošjutĭ), ошоути (ošuti) (Russian recension)
    • Church Slavonic: ашоуть (ašutĭ) (Serbian recension)
    • → Old East Slavic: ашуть (ašutĭ) (11-14ᵗʰ c.)
      • Middle Russian: ашють (ašutʹ) (circa 1431)
  • Bulgarian: ашут (ašut) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jěšut, jěšuť
  • Slovak: jašo

References

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*ašutь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 89
• Anikin, A. E. (2007) “ашють”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (A – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 355
• Vasmer, Max (1964) “ашуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – Д), Moscow: Progress, page 98