Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pasmo

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

Cognate with Latvian puõsms (“link”), formally reflecting Proto-Balto-Slavic *pṓˀsma. Endzelīns considers it a Balto-Slavic innovation.

Further origin is unclear. Has been compared with:

Dutch vezel (“fibre”), German Faser (“fibre”), diminutives of an earlier Proto-West Germanic *fasō. Per Miklošič, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pes- (“to bulge”).
Proto-Indo-Iranian *páćšma (“filament”), Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

Neither of these theories explains the acute in Balto-Slavic.

Noun

*pàsmo n^[1]^[2]

thread
stripe, band

Declension

Declension of *pasmo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pasmo	*pàsmě	*pàsma
genitive	*pàsma	*pàsmu	*pàsmъ
dative	*pàsmu	*pàsmoma	*pàsmomъ
accusative	*pasmo	*pàsmě	*pàsma
instrumental	pàsmъmь, pàsmomь^*	*pàsmoma	*pàsmȳ
locative	*pàsmě	*pàsmu	*pàsmě̄xъ
vocative	*pasmo	*pàsmě	*pàsma

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

Derived terms

*pasmica, *pasmъka, *pasmьce
*pasmina

Related terms

*pasmę (men-stem)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: пасмо (pasmo)
  - Old Ruthenian: па́смо (pásmo)
    - Belarusian: па́сма (pásma)
    - Ukrainian: па́смо́ (pásmó)
  - Russian: па́смо (pásmo), па́сьмо (pásʹmo)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: па́смо́ (pásmó)
- Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)
  Cyrillic script: па̏смо
  
  Latin script: pȁsmo
- Slovene: pásmo, pȃsma (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: pásmo
- Kashubian: pasmò
- Old Polish: pasmo
  - Polish: pasmo
- Slovak: pásmo (dialectal)
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: pasmo
  - Upper Sorbian: pasmo

Non-Slavic:
- → Lithuanian: põsmas

References

^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “pasmo, pl. pasma”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 23)”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “pasma”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *pa̋smo”

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пасмо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2018), “*pasmo/*pasma/*pasmь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 41 (*pala – *pažьnъ(јь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 171
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “пасмо”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

[1] Olander, Thomas (2001) “pasmo, pl. pasma”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 23)”

[2] Snoj, Marko (2016) “pasma”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *pa̋smo”

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