Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tuskъ

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

According to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-West Germanic *þiustrī (“dark, gloomy”). See there for further connections.

Noun

*tuskъ m

1. fog, darkness

Declension

Declension of *tuskъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tuskъ	*tuska	*tusci
genitive	*tuska	*tusku	*tuskъ
dative	*tusku	*tuskoma	*tuskomъ
accusative	*tuskъ	*tuska	*tusky
instrumental	*tuskъmь, *tuskomь*	*tuskoma	*tusky
locative	*tuscě	*tusku	*tuscěxъ
vocative	*tušče	*tuska	*tusci

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *тускъ (*tuskŭ)
    • Russian: туск (tusk) (obsolete)
• South Slavic:
  • >? Bulgarian: стущавам се (stuštavam se, “to get dark”) (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: на̀туштити

    Latin script: nàtuštiti

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1973) “туск”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 4 (Т – Ящур), Moscow: Progress, page 126