Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/osa

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 *vosa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wápsāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂.

Noun

*osà f^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

wasp
Synonym: (South Slavic) *bъzoľь

Declension

Declension of *osà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*osà	*òsě	*osỳ
genitive	*osỳ	*osù	*òsъ
dative	*osě̀	*osàma	*osàmъ
accusative	*osǫ̀	*òsě	*osỳ
instrumental	osòjǫ, òsǫ^**	*osàma	*osàmī
locative	*osě̀	*osù	osàsъ, osàxъ^*
vocative	*oso	*òsě	*osỳ

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: аса́ (asá)
- Russian: оса́ (osá)
- Ukrainian: оса́ (osá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: оса (osa)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱁⱄⰰ (osa)
- Bulgarian: оса́ (osá)
- Macedonian: оса (osa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: о̀са
  
  Latin script: òsa
- Slovene: ósa (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: vosa
- Polabian: våsă
- Polish: osa
- Silesian: ôsa
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: òsa
  - Slovincian: wôsa
- Old Slovak:
  - Pannonian Rusyn: оса (osa)
  - Slovak: osa
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: wosa
  - Lower Sorbian: wósa

References

^ Dybo, Vladimir A., Zamyatina, Galina I., Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40: “4. слав. *osa̍, acc. *osǫ̍ ― 4. slav. *osa̍, acc. *osǫ̍”
^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*osà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 377: “f. ā (b) ‘wasp’”
^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vapsva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “*osà”
^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53; 259: “*osa̍”

[1] Dybo, Vladimir A., Zamyatina, Galina I., Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40: “4. слав. *osa̍, acc. *osǫ̍ ― 4. slav. *osa̍, acc. *osǫ̍”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*osà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 377: “f. ā (b) ‘wasp’”

[3] Derksen, Rick (2015) “vapsva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “*osà”

[4] Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53; 259: “*osa̍”

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