Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jasli

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 earlier *ědsli-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ēˀdsl-. Senses relating to babies in some of the descendant languages are of later origin, referring to the Christian legend about birth of Jesus.

Noun

*jàsli f pl

1. (plural only) manger

Inflection

Declension of *jasli (i-stem, plural only)

	plural
nominative	*jasli
genitive	*jaslьjь, *jasli*
dative	*jaslьmъ
accusative	*jasli
instrumental	*jaslьmi
locative	*jaslьxъ
vocative	*jasli

^* 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).

Alternative forms

• *ěslo
• *ěsla

Descendants

• Church Slavonic: ꙗсли (jasli) (Russian), ꙗсли pl (jasli)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ꙗсли (jasli)
    • Belarusian: я́слі pl (jásli)
    • Russian: я́сли pl (jásli)
    • Ukrainian: я́сла n pl (jásla)
  • Old Novgorodian: ꙗсли (jasli)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ꙗсли (jasli)
  • Bulgarian: я́сла f (jásla), я́сли pl (jásli)
  • Macedonian: јасли pl (jasli)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ја̏сле f pl, ја̏сли f pl

    Latin script: jasle, jasla f, jȁsla pl, jȁslo n

  • Slovene: jȃsli pl (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jěsli pl
    • Czech: jesle pl, jesli?, jaseľ, jaseľe, jaśle pl
  • Polish: jasła pl, jasły pl, jasło pl
  • Slovak: jasle pl
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jasla pl, jasła
    • Lower Sorbian: jasła n pl

Non-Slavic:

• → Romanian: iesle

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ясли”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ясли”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 473
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ědsla, *ědslo, *ědslь, *ědsli”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 44
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “ясли”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙗсли”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1666