Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tesla

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

Alternative forms

• *teslò

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ-(dʰ)lo-, from *tetḱ-. Morphologically *tes- +‎ *-slo (“instrumental suffix”) or *tes- +‎ *-sla.

Cognate with Proto-Germanic *þehslō (“adze”).

Noun

*tesla f

1. adze

Declension

Declension of *tesla (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tesla	*teslě	*tesly
genitive	*tesly	*teslu	*teslъ
dative	*teslě	*teslama	*teslamъ
accusative	*teslǫ	*teslě	*tesly
instrumental	*teslojǫ, *teslǫ**	*teslama	*teslami
locative	*teslě	*teslu	*teslasъ, *teslaxъ*
vocative	*teslo	*teslě	*tesly

^* -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).

Related terms

• *tesati (“to hew”)

Descendants

• Church Slavonic: тесла (tesla) (Russian)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: тесла (tesla)
    • Belarusian: цясла́ (cjaslá)
    • Russian: тесло (teslo)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: тесла́ (teslá)
  • Macedonian: тесла (tesla)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: те̏сла

    Latin script: tȅsla

  • Slovene: tésla
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: tesla (archaic)
  • Polish: ciosła
• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: teslă

From *teslo

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: тесло́ (tesló)
  • Ukrainian: тесло́ (tesló)
• South Slavic:
  • Slovene: teslo

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тесла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тес”, 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 240
• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 491
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “тесла”, 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 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 952
• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “тесла”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “тесать”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.