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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/volstь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *walˀstis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wolh₁dʰh₁-ti-s, from *h₂welh₁dʰh₁-, from *h₂welh₁- (“to rule”). Morphologically as if from *vold- (“to rule”) + *-tь, from the root of one of the verbs *volsti, *voldati or *volděti all meaning "to rule".
Cognate with Latvian valsts (“state, realm”), Lithuanian valstybė.
Declension
Declension of *vȏlstь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *vȏlstь | *vȏlsti | *vȏlsti |
Accusative | *vȏlstь | *vȏlsti | *vȏlsti |
Genitive | *volstí | *volstьjù, *volsťu* | *volstь̀jь |
Locative | *volstí | *volstьjù, *volsťu* | *vȏlstьxъ |
Dative | *vȏlsti | *volstьmà | *vȏlstьmъ |
Instrumental | *volstьjǫ́ | *volstьmà | *volstьmì |
Vocative | *volsti | *vȏlsti | *vȏlsti |
* 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).
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic: волость (volostĭ)
- South Slavic:
References
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “во́лость”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 526
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