Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ěsnota

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

By surface analysis, *ěsnъ +‎ *-ota.

Noun

*ěsnota f[1]

  1. clearness, clarity

Declension

Declension of *ěsnota (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *ěsnota *ěsnotě *ěsnoty
genitive *ěsnoty *ěsnotu *ěsnotъ
dative *ěsnotě *ěsnotama *ěsnotamъ
accusative *ěsnotǫ *ěsnotě *ěsnoty
instrumental *ěsnotojǫ, *ěsnotǫ** *ěsnotama *ěsnotami
locative *ěsnotě *ěsnotu *ěsnotasъ, *ěsnotaxъ*
vocative *ěsnoto *ěsnotě *ěsnoty

* -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).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *ꙗснота (*jasnota)
      • Old Ruthenian: ꙗснота (jasnota)
        • Belarusian: ясно́та (jasnóta)
        • Ukrainian: яснота́ (jasnotá)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: яснота́ (jasnotá)
    • Macedonian: jаснота (jasnota)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: јасно̀та
    • Slovene: jasnóta (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ěsknota”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 51
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