Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫsъ

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 *vǫsъ < *vǫdsъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wándsa (whence Old Prussian wanso (“first beard”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰsom, s-expansion of root *wendʰ- (“hair, wool, beard”).

Noun

*ǫ̃sъ m

1. hair of a moustache
2. (in the plural) moustache

Declension

Declension of *ǫ̃sъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ǫ̃sъ	*ǭsà	*ǭsì
genitive	*ǭsà	*ǭsù	*ǫ̃sъ
dative	*ǭsù	*ǭsòma	*ǭsòmъ
accusative	*ǫ̃sъ	*ǭsà	*ǭsỳ
instrumental	*ǭsъ̀mь, *ǭsòmь*	*ǭsòma	*ǫ̃sy
locative	*ǭsě̀	*ǭsù	*ǫ̃sěxъ
vocative	*ǫse	*ǭsà	*ǭsì

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

Derived terms

• *ǫsiti (“to sulk”)
• *ǫsěnica (“caterpillar”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: вус (vus), ву́сы (vúsy)
  • Russian: ус (us), усы́ (usý)
  • Ukrainian: вус (vus), ву́са (vúsa), ву́си (vúsy)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: въс (vǎs)

    Bulgarian: навъсен, свъсен (navǎsen, svǎsen)

  • Macedonian:
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: на̀уснице

    Latin script: nàusnice

  • Slovene: vọ̑s, vosi
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: vous, vousy, fous, fousy
  • Polabian: vǫ̇s
  • Kashubian: wąs
  • Old Polish: wąs
    • Polish: wąs
  • Slovak: fúz, fúzy
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wusy
    • Upper Sorbian: wusy

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ус”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress