Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/posǫda

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- +‎ *sǫda.

Noun

*posǫda f

1. tableware, dishes, dishware

Declension

Declension of *posǫda (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*posǫda	*posǫdě	*posǫdy
genitive	*posǫdy	*posǫdu	*posǫdъ
dative	*posǫdě	*posǫdama	*posǫdamъ
accusative	*posǫdǫ	*posǫdě	*posǫdy
instrumental	*posǫdojǫ, *posǫdǫ**	*posǫdama	*posǫdami
locative	*posǫdě	*posǫdu	*posǫdasъ, *posǫdaxъ*
vocative	*posǫdo	*posǫdě	*posǫdy

^* -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

• *sǫdьno
• *sǫdъ
• *sъsǫdъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: пасу́да (pasúda); пасу́дзя (pasúdzja) (dialectal)
  • Russian: посу́да (posúda)
  • Ukrainian: посу́да (posúda) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: посу̀да (posùda)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̏суда

    Latin script: pȍsuda

  • Slovene: posọ̑da (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “по́суд”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka