Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jasli

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 earlier *ědsli-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ēˀdsl-. Senses relating to babies in some of the descendant languages are of later origin, referring to the Christian legend about birth of Jesus.

Noun

*jàsli f pl[1]

  1. (plural only) manger

Inflection

Declension of *jasli (i-stem, plural only)
plural
nominative *jasli
genitive *jaslьjь, *jasli*
dative *jaslьmъ
accusative *jasli
instrumental *jaslьmi
locative *jaslьxъ
vocative *jasli

* 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).

Alternative forms

  • *ěslo
  • *ěsla

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: ꙗсли (jasli)
      • Belarusian: я́слі pl (jásli)
      • Russian: я́сли pl (jásli)
      • Ukrainian: я́сла n pl (jásla)
    • Old Novgorodian: ꙗсли (jasli)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Non-Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ясли”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “ясли”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 473
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ědsla, *ědslo, *ědslь, *ědsli”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 44
  • Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “ясли”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙗсли”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1666

References

  1. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “jasli”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a krybbe (PR 133)”
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