Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/monisto

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

Cognates include Latin monile (“necklace”), Proto-Germanic *manją (“necklace”), Sanskrit मणि (maṇí, “necklace”).

Noun

*monisto n[1]

  1. necklace

Declension

Declension of *monisto (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *monisto *monistě *monista
genitive *monista *monistu *monistъ
dative *monistu *monistoma *monistomъ
accusative *monisto *monistě *monista
instrumental *monistъmь, *monistomь* *monistoma *monisty
locative *monistě *monistu *monistěxъ
vocative *monisto *monistě *monista

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

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: мони́сто (monísto)
    • Ukrainian: мони́сто (monýsto), нами́сто (namýsto) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Polabian: müönéisťа

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мони́сто”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*monisto”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 324: “n. o ‘necklace’”
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