Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/obolstь

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 *ob +‎ *volstь.

Noun

*obolstь f

1. oblast, a region ruled over

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Old East Slavic: оболость (obolostĭ)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: область (oblastĭ)

    • → Belarusian: во́бласць (vóblascʹ)
    • Bulgarian: област (oblast)
    • → Russian: о́бласть (óblastʹ)
    • → Ukrainian: о́бласть (óblastʹ)
  • Macedonian: област (oblast)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̏бла̄ст

    Latin script: ȍblāst

  • Slovene: oblást

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: oblast
  • Slovak: oblasť

References

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