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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/olsь

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 *alśis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ól-ḱ-is ~ h₁él-ḱ-is, from *h₁el- (“deer”). Cognate with English elk.

Noun

*ȏlsь m[1][2]

  1. (North Slavic) elk (British), moose (U.S.)

Declension

The word is only attested as a soft o-stem in the descendants, but the lack of both iotation and the progressive palatalization point to an original i-stem paradigm.

Declension of *ȏlsь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *ȏlsь *ȏlsi *ȏlsьjē, *ȏlšē*
genitive *olsí *olsьjù, *olšu* *olsь̀jь
dative *ȏlsi *olsьmà *ȏlsьmъ
accusative *ȏlsь *ȏlsi *ȏlsi
instrumental *ȏlsьmь *olsьmà *olsьmì
locative *olsí *olsьjù, *olšu* *ȏlsьxъ
vocative *olsi *ȏlsi *ȏlsьjē, *ȏlšē*
* 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:
    • Old East Slavic: лось (losĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: лось (losʹ), лѡсь (lôsʹ), лосъ (los)
        • Belarusian: лось (losʹ); лусь (lusʹ), лэсь (lesʹ) (dialectal)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: лось (losʹ)
        • Ukrainian: лось (losʹ)
      • Russian: лось (losʹ)
        • → Bulgarian: лос (los)
        • → Macedonian: лос (los)
        • → Serbo-Croatian:
          Cyrillic script: ло̏с
          Latin script: lȍs
        • → Slovene: lọ̑s (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: los
    • Old Polish: łoś
    • Old Slovak: los
    • Pomeranian:
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: łos
      • Upper Sorbian: łós

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*olsь/*olsъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 79
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лось”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ȏlsь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 370: “m. jo (c) ‘elk’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “lọ̑s”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “pslovan. *ȏlsь”
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