Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/osa

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 earlier *vosa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wápsāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *wóps.

Noun

*osà f

1. wasp

   Synonym: (South Slavic) *bъzoľь

Declension

Declension of *osà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*osà	*òsě	*osỳ
genitive	*osỳ	*osù	*òsъ
dative	*osě̀	*osàma	*osàmъ
accusative	*osǫ̀	*òsě	*osỳ
instrumental	*osòjǫ, *òsǫ**	*osàma	*osàmī
locative	*osě̀	*osù	*osàsъ, *osàxъ*
vocative	*oso	*òsě	*osỳ

^* -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).

See also

• *bǫbarъ (“beetle; bumblebee”)
• *bьčela (“bee”)
• *čьmeľь (“bumblebee”)
• *komarъ (“mosquito”)
• *muxa (“fly”)
• *osa (“wasp”)
• *sьrxy (“hornet”)
• *trǫtъ (“drone”)
• *žuža

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: аса́ (asá)
  • Russian: оса́ (osá)
  • Ukrainian: оса́ (osá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: оса (osa)

    Glagolitic: ⱁⱄⰰ (osa)

  • Bulgarian: оса́ (osá)
  • Macedonian: оса (osa)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀са

    Latin script: òsa

  • Slovene: ósa (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: vosa
  • Polabian: våsă
  • Polish: osa
  • Silesian: ôsa
  • Slovak: osa
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: wosa
    • Lower Sorbian: wósa

Further reading

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