Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glistъ

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gléista.

Noun

*glĩstъ m

1. worm

Inflection

Declension of *glĩstъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glĩstъ	*glīstà	*glīstì
genitive	*glīstà	*glīstù	*glĩstъ
dative	*glīstù	*glīstòma	*glīstòmъ
accusative	*glĩstъ	*glīstà	*glīstỳ
instrumental	*glīstъ̀mь, *glīstòmь*	*glīstòma	*glĩsty
locative	*glīstě̀	*glīstù	*glĩstěxъ
vocative	*gliste	*glīstà	*glīstì

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

Alternative forms

• *glistà

Related terms

• *glěnь, *glěnъ
• *glěvъ, *glěvь, *glěva
• *glina
• *gliva
• *glьjь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: гліст m (hlist)
  • Russian: глист m (glist)
  • Ukrainian: глист m (hlyst)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: глист m (glist)
  • Macedonian: глиста f (glista)
  • Serbo-Croatian: f

    Cyrillic script: гли́ста

    Latin script: glísta

    • Chakavian (Orbanići): glȋs f, glȋsta f, glȋsti f
  • Slovene: glista f
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: hlíst m, hlísta f
    • Moravian (Mistřice): hlísta
  • Polish: glista f
  • Slovak: hlísta f
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: glista
    • Upper Sorbian: hlista

• → Hungarian: giliszta

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глиста”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress