Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/postъ

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

Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *fastā, *fastu (“fast, fasting”).

Noun

*postъ m

1. fast (period of restricted eating)

Inflection

Declension of *pòstъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pòstъ	*postà	*postì
genitive	*postà	*postù	*pòstъ
dative	*postù	*postòma	*postòmъ
accusative	*pòstъ	*postà	*postỳ
instrumental	*postъ̀mь, *postòmь*	*postòma	*pòsty
locative	*postě̀	*postù	*pòstěxъ
vocative	*poste	*postà	*postì

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

Derived terms

• *postiti (“to fast”)
• *postьnъ (“lean”, adj.)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: постъ (postŭ)
    • Russian: пост (post)
    • Ukrainian: піст (pist)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: піст (pist)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: постъ (postŭ)

  • Bulgarian: пост (post)
  • Macedonian: пост (post)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̑ст

    Latin script: pȏst

  • Slovene: pȍst (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: půst
  • Kashubian: pòst
  • Polish: post
  • Slovak: pôst
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: spót
    • Upper Sorbian: póst

Non-Slavic:

• → Romanian: post (“fasting”)
• → Yiddish: פּאָסט (post)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пост”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пост¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 543