Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/usta

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-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
genitive	*ũstъ
dative	*ūstòmъ
accusative	*ūstà
instrumental	*ũsty
locative	*ũstěxъ
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:
- Old East Slavic: уста (usta)
  - Old Ruthenian: уста (usta)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: уста́ (ustá)
    - Ukrainian: вуста́ (vustá), уста́ (ustá)
  - Russian: уста́ (ustá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: оуста (usta)
- Bulgarian: уста́ (ustá)
- Macedonian: уста (usta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: у́ста
  
  Latin script: ústa
- Slovene: ústa (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: usta, ústa, ousta
  - Czech: ústa
- Old Polish: usta
  - Polish: usta
- Polabian: vaustă
- Slovak: ústa
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wusta

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 509

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 509

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