Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dъska

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

Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *disk, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos). *ъ is enigmatic.

Noun

*dъskà f

1. board, plank

Inflection

Declension of *dъskà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dъskà	*dъ̏scě	*dъ̏sky
genitive	*dъský	*dъskù	*dъ̀skъ
dative	*dъscě̀	*dъskàma	*dъskàmъ
accusative	*dъ̏skǫ	*dъ̏scě	*dъ̏sky
instrumental	*dъskojǫ́	*dъskàma	*dъskàmi
locative	*dъ̏scě	*dъskù	*dъskàsъ, *dъskàxъ*
vocative	*dъsko	*dъ̏scě	*dъ̏sky

^* -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.

Derived terms

adjectives

• *dъščanъ

 

nouns

• *dъščica
• *dъščьka

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дъска (dŭska), дьска (dĭska)
    • Middle Russian: доска (doska), дска (dska), цка (cka)
      • Russian: доска́ (doská); цка́ (cká) (dialectal)
        • → Ingrian: doska
        • → Yakut: дуоска (duoska)
        • → Yup'ik: tuskaq
    • Old Ruthenian: доска (doska)
  • Old Novgorodian: дъска (dŭska), дска (dska)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰴⱏⱄⰽⰰ (dŭska)

    Old Cyrillic script: дъска (dŭska)

    • Bulgarian: дъска́ (dǎská)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: даска, деска

    Latin script: daska, deska

  • Slovene: deska
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: deska
  • Polish: deska
  • Slovak: doska

Further reading

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