Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫzlъ

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

Probably related to *vęzati. Possibly cognate with Lithuanian ą́žuolas, Latvian ozols, Old Prussian ansonis (“oak”).

Noun

*ǫ̀zlъ m

1. knot

Inflection

Declension of *ǫ̀zlъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ǫ̀zlъ	*ǫ̀zla	*ǫ̀zli
genitive	*ǫ̀zla	*ǫ̀zlu	*ǫ̀zlъ
dative	*ǫ̀zlu	*ǫ̀zloma	*ǫ̀zlomъ
accusative	*ǫ̀zlъ	*ǫ̀zla	*ǫ̀zly
instrumental	*ǫ̀zlъmь, *ǫ̀zlomь*	*ǫ̀zloma	*ǫ̀zlȳ
locative	*ǫ̀zlě	*ǫ̀zlu	*ǫ̀zlě̄xъ
vocative	*ǫ̀zle	*ǫ̀zla	*ǫ̀zli

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: узълъ (uzŭlŭ)
    • Belarusian: ву́зел (vúzjel)
    • Russian: у́зел (úzel)
    • Ukrainian: ву́зол (vúzol)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ѫзлъ (ǫzlŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱘⰸⰾⱏ (ǫzlŭ)

  • Bulgarian: въ́зел (vǎ́zel), въ́ндзил (vǎ́ndzil) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: јазол (jazol)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: у̏зао

    Latin script: ȕzao

  • Slovene: vôzəl (tonal orthography), ôzəl (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: uzel
    • Czech: uzel
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): huzel
      • Moravian (Mistřice): uzeu̯
  • Polabian: vǫzål
  • Old Polish: węzeł
    • Polish: węzeł
    • → Belarusian: ве́нзель (vjénzjelʹ)
    • → Russian: ве́нзель (vénzelʹ)
    • → Ukrainian: ве́нзель (vénzelʹ)
  • Slovak: uzol
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wuzoł

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ǫ̀zlъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 399
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “узел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress