Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pasmo

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

Cognate with Latvian puõsms (“link”), formally reflecting Proto-Balto-Slavic *pṓˀsma. Endzelīns considers it a Balto-Slavic innovation.

Further origin is unclear. Has been compared with:

• Dutch vezel (“fibre”), German Faser (“fibre”), diminutives of an earlier Proto-West Germanic *fasō. Per Miklošič, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pes- (“to bulge”).
• Proto-Indo-Iranian *páćšma (“filament”), Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

Neither of these theories explains the acute in Balto-Slavic.

Noun

*pàsmo n

1. thread
2. stripe, band

Declension

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pasmo	*pàsmě	*pàsma
genitive	*pàsma	*pàsmu	*pàsmъ
dative	*pàsmu	*pàsmoma	*pàsmomъ
accusative	*pasmo	*pàsmě	*pàsma
instrumental	*pàsmъmь, *pàsmomь*	*pàsmoma	*pàsmȳ
locative	*pàsmě	*pàsmu	*pàsmě̄xъ
vocative	*pasmo	*pàsmě	*pàsma

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

Derived terms

• *pasmica, *pasmъka, *pasmьce
• *pasmina

Related terms

• *pasmę (men-stem)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пасмо (pasmo)
    • Old Ruthenian: па́смо (pásmo)
      • Belarusian: па́сма (pásma)
      • Ukrainian: па́смо́ (pásmó)
    • Russian: па́смо (pásmo), па́сьмо (pásʹmo)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: па́смо́ (pásmó)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)

    Cyrillic script: па̏смо

    Latin script: pȁsmo

  • Slovene: pásmo, pȃsma (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pásmo
  • Kashubian: pasmò
  • Old Polish: pasmo
    • Polish: pasmo
  • Slovak: pásmo (dialectal)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pasmo
    • Upper Sorbian: pasmo

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Lithuanian: põsmas

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пасмо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2018), “*pasmo/*pasma/*pasmь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 41 (*pala – *pažьnъ(јь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 171
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “пасмо”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka