Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/posteľь

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

• *posteľa

Etymology

*po- +‎ *stьlati (“to spread”) +‎ *-jь.

Noun

*posteľь f

1. bedding, bedclothes

Inflection

Declension of *posteljь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*posteljь	*postelji	*postelji
genitive	*postelji	*posteljьju, *postelju*	*posteljьjь, *postelji*
dative	*postelji	*posteljьma	*posteljьmъ
accusative	*posteljь	*postelji	*postelji
instrumental	*posteljьjǫ, *posteljǫ*	*posteljьma	*posteljьmi
locative	*postelji	*posteljьju, *postelju*	*posteljьxъ
vocative	*postelji	*postelji	*postelji

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: посте́ль (postélʹ)
  • Old Ruthenian: постель (postelʹ), постелꙗ (postelja), посьтель (posʹtelʹ)
    • Belarusian: пасце́ль (pascjélʹ)
    • Ukrainian: по́сті́ль (póstílʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: постелꙗ (postelja)

  • Bulgarian: посте́ля (postélja), посте́лка (postélka)
  • Macedonian: постела (postela), постелка (postelka), постелнина (postelnina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̏стеља

    Latin script: pȍstelja

  • Slovene: pọ́stelja (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: postele, postel
    • Czech: postel
  • Polabian: püstéla
  • Polish: pościel
  • Old Slovak: posteľ
    • Pannonian Rusyn: посцель (poscelʹ)
    • Slovak: posteľ
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: póstol, póstola

Further reading

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