Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pisьmo

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 *pis- +‎ *-ьmo. Per Vasmer, normally compared with Lithuanian piešìmas (“drawing, daubing”) (< piẽšti +‎ -imas).

Noun

*pisьmo n

1. letter (written communication)
2. script

Inflection

Declension of *pisьmo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pisьmo	*pisьmě	*pisьma
genitive	*pisьma	*pisьmu	*pisьmъ
dative	*pisьmu	*pisьmoma	*pisьmomъ
accusative	*pisьmo	*pisьmě	*pisьma
instrumental	*pisьmъmь, *pisьmomь*	*pisьmoma	*pisьmy
locative	*pisьmě	*pisьmu	*pisьměxъ
vocative	*pisьmo	*pisьmě	*pisьma

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: письмо (pisĭmo)
    • Belarusian: пісьмо́ (pisʹmó)
    • Russian: письмо́ (pisʹmó)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: письмо (pysʹmo)
    • Ukrainian: письмо́ (pysʹmó)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: писмѧ (pismę)
  • Bulgarian: писмо́ (pismó)
  • Macedonian: писмо (pismo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пи́смо

    Latin script: písmo

  • Slovene: písmo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: písmo
    • Czech: písmo
  • Old Polish: pismo
    • Polish: pismo
    • Silesian: pismo
  • Slovak: písmo
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: pismò
    • Slovincian: pjysmô
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pismo
    • Upper Sorbian: pismo

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “письмо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “письмо”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 939