Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polsa

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 *palśā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *falgō.

Noun

*polsà f

1. strip

Declension

Declension of *polsà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*polsà	*pȏlsě	*pȏlsy
genitive	*polsý	*polsù	*põlsъ
dative	*polsě̀	*polsàma	*polsàmъ
accusative	*pȏlsǫ	*pȏlsě	*pȏlsy
instrumental	*polsojǫ́	*polsàma	*polsàmi
locative	*pȏlsě	*polsù	*polsàsъ, *polsàxъ*
vocative	*polso	*pȏlsě	*pȏlsy

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: паласа́ (palasá)
  • Russian: полоса́ (polosá)
  • Ukrainian: полоса́ (polosá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: пласа (plasa)

    Glagolitic: ⱂⰾⰰⱄⰰ (plasa)

  • Bulgarian: пла́са (plása)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пла̏са

    Latin script: plȁsa

  • Slovene: plása (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: plasa
    • Czech: plasa
  • Polish: płosa

Further reading

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