Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/os(ь)la

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

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśilos, *aśelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-i-l-o- or *h₂eḱ-l-, from the root *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).

Noun

*os(ь)la f

1. whetstone, hone

   Synonym: *brusъ

Inflection

Declension of *os(ь)la (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*os(ь)la	*os(ь)lě	*os(ь)ly
genitive	*os(ь)ly	*os(ь)lu	*os(ь)lъ
dative	*os(ь)lě	*os(ь)lama	*os(ь)lamъ
accusative	*os(ь)lǫ	*os(ь)lě	*os(ь)ly
instrumental	*os(ь)lojǫ, *os(ь)lǫ**	*os(ь)lama	*os(ь)lami
locative	*os(ь)lě	*os(ь)lu	*os(ь)lasъ, *os(ь)laxъ*
vocative	*os(ь)lo	*os(ь)lě	*os(ь)ly

^* -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

adjective

• *ostrъ

 

nouns

• *esetь
• *ostь
• *ostьnъ

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: осла (osla)
    • ⇒ Russian: осело́к (oselók)
    • Ukrainian: осла́ (oslá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: осла (osla)

  • Slovene: ósla (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polabian: våslă
  • Old Polish: osła
    • Polish: osła (obsolete)
      • ⇒ Polish: osełka
  • Slovak: osla
  • Sorbian:

    ⇒ Lower Sorbian: woslica

Further reading

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