Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/posъlъ
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
Agent/action noun of Proto-Slavic *posъlati (“to appoint, to send”), formally from *po- + *sъlъ.
Noun edit
*posъlъ m[1]
- envoy, messenger (in West and East dialects)
- task, assignment (in South dialects)
Declension edit
Declension of *posъlъ (hard o-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *posъlъ | *posъla | *posъli |
genitive | *posъla | *posъlu | *posъlъ |
dative | *posъlu | *posъloma | *posъlomъ |
accusative | *posъlъ | *posъla | *posъly |
instrumental | *posъlъmь, *posъlomь* | *posъloma | *posъly |
locative | *posъlě | *posъlu | *posъlěxъ |
vocative | *posъle | *posъla | *posъli |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms edit
- *posъlьstvo (“visit, delegation”)
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: pósəł (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “посол”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References edit
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “posel”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *posъlъ̏”