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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/trьstь

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

Unclear, perhaps:

  1. from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₁- (“stiff”) as Proto-Germanic *staraz (“stiff”), Latin strēnuus (“brisk”), from which root with extension *(s)treg- (“rigid, stiff”) from which Proto-Germanic *strakaz (“firm, rigid”)
  2. from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“stretching”)

Noun

*trьstь or trъstь f

  1. reed, cane
  2. cane stick

Declension

Descendants

  • Old East Slavic: трьсть (trĭstĭ), тръсть (trŭstĭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: трьсть (trĭstĭ), тръсть (trŭstĭ)
      Glagolitic script: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: тряст (trjast), тръст (trǎst)
    • ⇒ Macedonian: трска (trska)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: тр̑ст,
      Latin script: tȓst
    • Slovene: tȓst (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

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