Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pisьmo

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 *pis- +‎ *-ьmo. Per Vasmer, normally compared with Lithuanian piešìmas (“drawing, daubing”) (< piẽšti +‎ -imas).

Noun

*pisьmo n

letter (written communication)
script

Inflection

Declension of *pisьmo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pisьmo	*pisьmě	*pisьma
genitive	*pisьma	*pisьmu	*pisьmъ
dative	*pisьmu	*pisьmoma	*pisьmomъ
accusative	*pisьmo	*pisьmě	*pisьma
instrumental	pisьmъmь, pisьmomь^*	*pisьmoma	*pisьmy
locative	*pisьmě	*pisьmu	*pisьměxъ
vocative	*pisьmo	*pisьmě	*pisьma

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: письмо (pisĭmo)
  - Belarusian: пісьмо́ (pisʹmó)
  - Russian: письмо́ (pisʹmó)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: письмо (pysʹmo)
  - Ukrainian: письмо́ (pysʹmó)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: писмѧ (pismę)
- Bulgarian: писмо́ (pismó)
- Macedonian: писмо (pismo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пи́смо
  
  Latin script: písmo
- Slovene: písmo (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: písmo
  - Czech: písmo
- Old Polish: pismo
  - Masurian: psismo
  - Polish: pismo
  - Silesian: pismo
- Slovak: písmo
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: pismò
  - Slovincian: pjysmô
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: pismo
  - Upper Sorbian: pismo

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “письмо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “письмо”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 939