Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/volstь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *walˀstis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wolh₁dʰh₁-ti-s, from *h₂welh₁dʰh₁-, from *h₂welh₁- (“to rule”). Morphologically as if from *vold- (“to rule”) + *-tь, from the root of one of the verbs *volsti, *voldati or *volděti all meaning "to rule".
Cognate with Latvian valsts (“state, realm”), Lithuanian valstybė.
Noun
*vȏlstь f
Declension
Declension of *vȏlstь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *vȏlstь | *vȏlsti | *vȏlsti |
genitive | *volstí | *volstьjù, *volsťu* | *volstь̀jь |
dative | *vȏlsti | *volstьmà | *vȏlstьmъ |
accusative | *vȏlstь | *vȏlsti | *vȏlsti |
instrumental | *volstьjǫ́ | *volstьmà | *volstьmì |
locative | *volstí | *volstьjù, *volsťu* | *vȏlstьxъ |
vocative | *volsti | *vȏlsti | *vȏlsti |
* 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).
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic: волость (volostĭ)
- South Slavic:
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “во́лость”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 526
Categories:
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms suffixed with *-tь
- Proto-Slavic lemmas
- Proto-Slavic nouns
- Proto-Slavic feminine nouns
- Proto-Slavic i-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic feminine i-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c