Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/osъtъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśutas, cognate to Lithuanian ãšutas (“hair of a horse’s tail or mane”). A derivation from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”), which is here notably also present in Proto-Slavic *ostь, *ostъ (“awn; fish bone; axletree”), Lithuanian akstìs (“prick, thorn”), Latvian āksts (“prick, thorn”), Latvian aste (“tail”).

Noun

*osъtъ m

1. a kind of thistle; or perhaps thistle in general as vaguely as the English

Inflection

Declension of *osъtъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*osъtъ	*osъta	*osъti
genitive	*osъta	*osъtu	*osъtъ
dative	*osъtu	*osъtoma	*osъtomъ
accusative	*osъtъ	*osъta	*osъty
instrumental	*osъtъmь, *osъtomь*	*osъtoma	*osъty
locative	*osъtě	*osъtu	*osъtěxъ
vocative	*osъte	*osъta	*osъti

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: осътъ (osŭtŭ)
    • Belarusian: асо́т (asót), dialectally асо́та (asóta), асата́ (asatá), асіта́ (asitá)
    • Russian: осо́т (osót), pre-1918 осо́тъ (osót), dialectally осо́ть (osótʹ), осо́та (osóta), осота́ (osotá) (but these are contaminated with осо́ка́ (osóká, “sedge”))
    • Ukrainian: осо́т (osót), dialectally осе́т (osét)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: осътъ (osŭtŭ), осьтъ (osĭtŭ), осотъ (osotŭ)
  • Bulgarian: осъ́т (osǎ́t), pre-1945 осъ́тъ (osǎ́t), осѫ́тъ (osǫ́t)
  • Macedonian: осат (osat)
  • Serbo-Croatian: òsat, but this seems extinct and is continued by ȍsjāk from ȏsje (“hair”)
  • Slovene: osȃt, dialectally ọ́sət, ọ́cət
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: òct
  • Old Czech: oset
    • Czech: oset, voset
  • Old Polish: oset
    • Polish: oset
    • Silesian: ôset
  • Old Slovak: oset
    • Slovak: oset, osit (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Polabian: våsăc
  • Slovincian: wôc
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: woset, wóset
    • Upper Sorbian: wóst

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: aszat

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/osъtъ”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 397
• Zhuravlyov, A. F., editor (2010), “*osъtъ/*osъta/*osъtjь/*osъtь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 36 (*orz(ъ)zeleněti/*orz(ъ)zeleniti (sę) – *otъgrěbati (sę)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 77