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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/osa

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 earlier *vosa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wápsāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *wóps.

Noun

*osà f[1][2][3][4]

  1. wasp
    Synonym: (South Slavic) *bъzoľь

Declension
Declension of *osà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *osà *òsě *osỳ
genitive *osỳ *osù *òsъ
dative *osě̀ *osàma *osàmъ
accusative *osǫ̀ *òsě *osỳ
instrumental *osòjǫ, *òsǫ** *osàma *osàmī
locative *osě̀ *osù *osàsъ, *osàxъ*
vocative *oso *òsě *osỳ
* -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.
** 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).

See also

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: аса́ (asá)
    • Russian: оса́ (osá)
    • Ukrainian: оса́ (osá)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: оса (osa)
      Glagolitic: ⱁⱄⰰ (osa)
    • Bulgarian: оса́ (osá)
    • Macedonian: оса (osa)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: о̀са
      Latin script: òsa
    • Slovene: ósa (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

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

References
  1. Dybo, Vladimir A., Zamyatina, Galina I., Nikolaev, Sergei L. (1990) Основы славянской акцентологии [Fundamentals of Slavic Accentology]‎ (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 40: “4. слав. *osa̍, acc. *osǫ̍ ― 4. slav. *osa̍, acc. *osǫ̍”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*osà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 377: “f. ā (b) ‘wasp’”
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015) “vapsva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “*osà”
  4. Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53; 259: “*osa̍”
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