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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/usta

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-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).

Noun

*ūstà n pl[1]

  1. lips, mouth

Declension
Declension of *ūstà (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b, plural only)
plural
nominative *ūstà
genitive *ũstъ
dative *ūstòmъ
accusative *ūstà
instrumental *ũsty
locative *ũstěxъ
vocative *ūstà
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms
  • *ustàtъ (“having big mouth; figr. chatty, garrulous”)
  • *ustьje (“mouth (of a river)”)
  • *čeľustь (“jaw”)
  • *ustьna (“lip”)

Descendants

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

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 509
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