Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/posoxъ

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *posoxa

Etymology

From *po- +‎ *soxa (“stick”) +‎ *-ъ.

Noun

*posoxъ m

1. staff

Declension

Declension of *posoxъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*posoxъ	*posoxa	*posośi
genitive	*posoxa	*posoxu	*posoxъ
dative	*posoxu	*posoxoma	*posoxomъ
accusative	*posoxъ	*posoxa	*posoxy
instrumental	*posoxъmь, *posoxomь*	*posoxoma	*posoxy
locative	*posośě	*posoxu	*posośěxъ
vocative	*posoše	*posoxa	*posośi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: посохъ (posoxŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: по́сохъ (pósox), по́сухъ (pósux)
      • Belarusian: по́сах (pósax); по́сох (pósox) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: по́сох (pósox)
    • Russian: по́сох (pósox)
      • → Polish: posoch (obsolete)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: посохъ (posoxŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱁⱄⱁⱈⱏ (posoxŭ)

Further reading

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