Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nasoka

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

Instead of regular **nasoča, back-formed from *nasočiti (“to slander, accuse; to incite, instigate”), from *na- +‎ *sočiti + *-a.

Noun

*nasoka f

  1. slander
    Synonyms: *navětъ, *narokъ, *navada
  2. direction, guideline (South Slavic)

Inflection

Declension of *nasoka (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *nasoka *nasocě *nasoky
genitive *nasoky *nasoku *nasokъ
dative *nasocě *nasokama *nasokamъ
accusative *nasokǫ *nasocě *nasoky
instrumental *nasokojǫ, *nasokǫ** *nasokama *nasokami
locative *nasocě *nasoku *nasokasъ, *nasokaxъ*
vocative *nasoko *nasocě *nasoky

* -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).

Descendants

  • East Slavic: —
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: насо́ка (nasóka, “direction”)
    • Macedonian: на́сока (násoka, “direction”)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: násoka (“calumniation, slander”)
      • Czech: násoka (“accusation, slander”) (obsolete)[1]

References

  1. ^ František Št. Kott (1880) “násoka”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: František Šimáček, page 75

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1996), “*nasoka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 23 (*narodьnъjь – *navijakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 64
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “насока”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 533
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