Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/doselě

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

Most likely from univerbation of *do +‎ *se (demonstrative pronoun) +‎ *lě / *li. Descendants do not show agreement on the second element: some (South Slavic) have the masculine form *sь m, while others (East Slavic) have the neuter *se n.

Adverb

*doselě

1. hitherto

Related terms

• *dokolě
• *dotolě

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: доселѣ (doselě)
    • Old Ruthenian: до́селѣ (dóselě), досель (doselʹ), доселꙗ (doselja), досюль (dosjulʹ), досюлꙗ (dosjulja)
      • Belarusian: до́сыль (dósylʹ), дасы́ля (dasýlja), до́сюль (dósjulʹ), дасюль (dasjulʹ) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: до́сіль (dósilʹ)
    • Russian: досе́ле (doséle), досе́ль (dosélʹ), досе́лева (doséleva); досюль (dosjulʹ) (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Old East Slavic: досеѣ (doseě)
    • Old Ruthenian: до́сѣ (dósě)
      • Ukrainian: до́сі (dósi); до́си (dósy) (dialectal)
        • → Russian: до́си (dósi) (dialectal)
    • Russian: до́се (dóse) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: доселѣ (doselě), досели (doseli)

    Glagolitic script: ⰴⱁⱄⰵⰾⱑ (doselě), ⰴⱁⱄⰵⰾⰻ (doseli)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: до̏сле̄, до̏слије, до̏сље

    Latin script: dȍslē, dȍslije, dȍslje

  • Slovene: doslȇ, doslȇj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: dosel
  • Polish: dosiela (archaic, dialectal)
  • Slovak: dosiaľ
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: dosal (dialectal)

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “досе́ле”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*do se/*do se lě”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 81