Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gǫsli
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom *gǫsti + *-slь. Compare Lithuanian kañklės pl (“kanklės?”) and also Finnish kannel, kantele, Karelian kandelen, Veps kandel, Livonian kandla.
Noun
edit*gǫ̀sli f pl[1]
Inflection
editDeclension of *gǫsli (i-stem, plural only)
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гусли”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “гусли”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 228
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gǫslь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 84
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “гусли”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa