Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rosa

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *rasā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ros-eh₂. Cognate with Latin rōs (“dew”), Sanskrit रसा (rásā, “moisture, humidity”).

Noun

*rosà f[1]

  1. dew

Inflection

Declension of *rosà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *rosà *rȍsě *rȍsy
genitive *rosý *rosù *ròsъ
dative *rosě̀ *rosàma *rosàmъ
accusative *rȍsǫ *rȍsě *rȍsy
instrumental *rosojǫ́ *rosàma *rosàmi
locative *rȍsě *rosù *rosàsъ, *rosàxъ*
vocative *roso *rȍsě *rȍsy

* -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.

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: раса́ (rasá)
    • Russian: роса́ (rosá)
    • Ukrainian: роса́ (rosá)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rosà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438
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