Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voskъ

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wáśka (wax).

Reconstruction edit

The accent paradigm b is preserved in the Old East Slavic monument “Celebnik” with northwestern accentuation: воску̀ (voskù), воску́ же (voskú že), возко́мъ (vozkómŭ)[1].

Noun edit

*vòskъ or *vȍskъ m[1][2]

  1. wax

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “воск”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “воск”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 168

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nikolajev, S. L. (2012) “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura[1] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 138:*vôskъ, *võskъ*vôsk, *võsk
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*voskъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 529