Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pojasъ

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 *po- +‎ *jasъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *yōˀs-, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s-. Cognate with Lithuanian júosta (“girdle”), Latvian jôsta (“girdle”), Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr, “girdle”), Ancient Greek ζωστός (zōstós, “girdled”), Avestan 𐬫𐬁𐬵- (yāh-, “girdle”), 𐬫𐬁𐬯𐬙𐬀 (yāsta, “girdled”), Albanian gjesh (“to gird”).

Noun

*pȍjāsъ m

1. girdle

Inflection

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pȍjāsъ	*pȍjāsa	*pȍjāsi
genitive	*pȍjāsa	*pojāsù	*pojãsъ
dative	*pȍjāsu	*pojāsomà	*pojāsòmъ
accusative	*pȍjāsъ	*pȍjāsa	*pȍjāsy
instrumental	*pȍjāsъmь, *pȍjāsomь*	*pojāsomà	*pojāsý
locative	*pȍjāsě	*pojāsù	*pojāsě̃xъ
vocative	*pojase	*pȍjāsa	*pȍjāsi

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

Derived terms

• *pojasati (“to gird”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: поꙗсъ (pojasŭ), поꙗсьница (pojasĭnica)
    • Belarusian: по́яс (pójas)
    • Russian: по́яс (pójas)
    • Ukrainian: по́яс (pójas)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: поꙗсъ (pojasŭ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: по́яс (pójas)
  • Macedonian: појас (pojas)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̏ја̄с

    Latin script: pȍjās

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): på̄s, gen. på̄sa; pȃs (“belt, waist, stripe”), gen. pȃsa
  • Slovene: pȃs (tonal orthography), gen. pȃsa, pasȗ (tonal orthography); pojȃs (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pás
    • Czech: pás
  • Polish: pas, pás (obsolete or dialectal)
    • → Belarusian: пас (pas)
    • → Yiddish: פּאַס (pas)
  • Slovak: pás
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: pas
    • Lower Sorbian: pas

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “по́яс”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “по́яс”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 64