Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pojasъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *po- + *jasъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *yōˀs-, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s-. Cognate with Lithuanian júosta (“girdle”), Latvian jôsta (“girdle”), Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr, “girdle”), Ancient Greek ζωστός (zōstós, “girdled”), Avestan 𐬫𐬁𐬵- (yāh-, “girdle”), 𐬫𐬁𐬯𐬙𐬀 (yāsta, “girdled”), Albanian gjesh (“to gird”).
Noun
*pȍjāsъ m[1]
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *pȍjāsъ | *pȍjāsa | *pȍjāsi |
| genitive | *pȍjāsa | *pojāsù | *pojãsъ |
| dative | *pȍjāsu | *pojāsomà | *pojāsòmъ |
| accusative | *pȍjāsъ | *pȍjāsa | *pȍjāsy |
| instrumental | *pȍjāsъmь, *pȍjāsomь* | *pojāsomà | *pojāsý |
| locative | *pȍjāsě | *pojāsù | *pojāsě̃xъ |
| vocative | *pojase | *pȍjāsa | *pȍjāsi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *pojasati (“to gird”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “по́яс”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “по́яс”, 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 64
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pȍjāsъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 409: “m. o (c) ‘girdle’”