Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kolsъ

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

Formed from *kolti (“to reap”) +‎ *-sъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kálˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *kolh₂-so-. See also Latin culmus (“stalk”) and Proto-West Germanic *hulis (“butcher's broom”).

Noun

*kȏlsъ m

1. ear (of grain)

Inflection

Declension of *kȏlsъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kȏlsъ	*kȏlsa	*kȏlsi
genitive	*kȏlsa	*kolsù	*kõlsъ
dative	*kȏlsu	*kolsomà	*kolsòmъ
accusative	*kȏlsъ	*kȏlsa	*kȏlsy
instrumental	*kȏlsъmь, *kȏlsomь*	*kolsomà	*kolsý
locative	*kȏlsě	*kolsù	*kolsě̃xъ
vocative	*kolse	*kȏlsa	*kȏlsi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ко́лас (kólas)
  • Russian: ко́лос (kólos)
  • Ukrainian: ко́лос (kólos)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: класъ (klasŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⰾⰰⱄⱏ (klasŭ)

    • → Russian: клас (klas)
  • Bulgarian: клас (klas)
  • Macedonian: клас (klas)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кла̑с

    Latin script: klȃs

  • Slovene: klȃs
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: klas
    • Czech: klas
      • Moravian (Mistřice): ku̯as
  • Polabian: klås
  • Old Polish: kłos
    • Polish: kłos
  • Slovak: klas
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kłós
    • Lower Sorbian: kłos

Further reading

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