Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/usta

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).

Noun

*ūstà n pl

1. lips, mouth

Declension

Declension of *ūstà (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b, plural only)

	Plural
Nominative	*ūstà
Accusative	*ūstà
Genitive	*ũstъ
Locative	*ũstěxъ
Dative	*ūstòmъ
Instrumental	*ũsty
Vocative	*ūstà

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

Derived terms

• *ustàtъ (“having big mouth; figr. chatty, garrulous”)
• *ustьje (“mouth (of a river)”)
• *čeľustь (“jaw”)
• *ustьna (“lip”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ву́сны (vúsny)
  • Russian: уста́ (ustá)
  • Rusyn: уста (usta)
  • Ukrainian: вуста́ (vustá), уста́ (ustá)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: оуста (usta)
  • Bulgarian: уста́ (ustá)
  • Macedonian: уста (usta)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: у́ста

    Latin: ústa

  • Slovene: ústa (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: usta
    • Czech: ústa
  • Polabian: vaustă
  • Polish: usta
  • Slovak: ústa
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wusta

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max, “уста”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language]‎^[1] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubačóv, Moscow: Progress, 1964–1973