Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/osoba

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

Univerbation of *o +‎ *sȅbe.

Noun

*osoba f

1. person

Declension

Declension of *osoba (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*osoba	*osobě	*osoby
genitive	*osoby	*osobu	*osobъ
dative	*osobě	*osobama	*osobamъ
accusative	*osobǫ	*osobě	*osoby
instrumental	*osobojǫ, *osobǫ**	*osobama	*osobami
locative	*osobě	*osobu	*osobasъ, *osobaxъ*
vocative	*osobo	*osobě	*osoby

^* -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).

Derived terms

• *osobьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: асо́ба (asóba)
  • Russian: осо́ба (osóba)
  • Ukrainian: осо́ба (osóba)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: особа (osoba)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̏соба

    Latin script: ȍsoba

  • Slovene: oséba
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: osoba
    • Czech: osoba
  • Old Polish: osoba
    • Polish: osoba
    • Silesian: ôsoba, (proscribed) osoba
  • Old Slovak: osoba
    • Pannonian Rusyn: особа (osoba)
    • Slovak: osoba
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: òsoba
    • Slovincian: wôsôba
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wosoba
      • → Lower Sorbian: wósoba

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “особа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “osoba”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2003), “особа”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 4 (Н – П), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 224
• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “osoba”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “osoba”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN