Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pręslo

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 *pręsti (“to spin”) +‎ *-slo. Cognate with Latvian sprieslis, Old English sprindel.

Noun

*pręslo n

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Inflection

Declension of *pręslo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pręslo	*pręslě	*pręsla
genitive	*pręsla	*pręslu	*pręslъ
dative	*pręslu	*pręsloma	*pręslomъ
accusative	*pręslo	*pręslě	*pręsla
instrumental	pręslъmь, pręslomь^*	*pręsloma	*pręsly
locative	*pręslě	*pręslu	*pręslěxъ
vocative	*pręslo	*pręslě	*pręsla

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

Descendants

Church Slavonic: прѧсло (pręslo) (Serbian)

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: прѧсло (pręslo)
  - Russian: пря́сло (prjáslo)
  - Ukrainian: пря́сло (prjáslo)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пре̏слица
  
  Latin script: prȅslica
- Slovene: prẹ́slo, prẹ́slica, preslica
West Slavic:
- Czech: přáslo, přeslice
- Polish: przęsło
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: přaslen

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “прясло”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “прясть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 79
Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “прѧсло”, 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 1719