Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rosa

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *rasā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂. Cognate with Latin rōs (“dew”), Sanskrit रसा (rásā, “moisture, humidity”).

Noun edit

*rosà f^[1]

dew

Inflection edit

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rosà	*rȍsě	*rȍsy
genitive	*rosý	*rosù	*ròsъ
dative	*rosě̀	*rosàma	*rosàmъ
accusative	*rȍsǫ	*rȍsě	*rȍsy
instrumental	*rosojǫ́	*rosàma	*rosàmi
locative	*rȍsě	*rosù	rosàsъ, rosàxъ^*
vocative	*roso	*rȍsě	*rȍsy

^* -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 edit

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: раса́ (rasá)
- Russian: роса́ (rosá)
- Ukrainian: роса́ (rosá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: роса (rosa)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱃⱁⱄⰰ (rosa)
- Bulgarian: роса́ (rosá)
- Macedonian: роса (rosa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ро̀са
  
  Latin script: ròsa
  - Chakavian (Orbanići): rosȁ
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): rosȁ
- Slovene: rósa (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: rosa
  - Czech: rosa
- Polabian: rösă
- Polish: rosa
- Slovak: rosa
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: rosa
  - Upper Sorbian: rosa

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rosà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 438

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rosà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 438

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