лось

Belarusian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian лось.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɫosʲ]

Noun

лось (losʹ) m animal (genitive лася́, nominative plural ласі́, genitive plural ласёў)

  1. moose, elk, Alces alces

Declension

Old Ruthenian

лось

Alternative forms

  • лѡсь, лосъ

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic лось (losĭ), from Proto-Slavic *ȏlsь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *alśis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ólḱis, from *h₁el-.[1] Cognate with Russian лось (losʹ), Old Polish łoś.

Noun

лось (transliteration needed) m anim

  1. elk (Alces alces)
    • …и ѡт тых ѕвѣрѡв єдины на по́карⸯмъ ꙗко є́ленѣ, са́ръны, лѡ́сѣ, зꙋбре́ве(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • ричитⸯ лосъ егда иматⸯ траву(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • видѣломъ мѣсцо, гдѣ лося забито(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • кгды в остꙋпахъ поⸯмают албо забют лосѧ, еленѧ, вепра, анижели ѡ сто воловъ радовали(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

  • Belarusian: лось (losʹ); лусь (lusʹ), лэсь (lesʹ) (dialectal)
  • Rusyn: лось (losʹ)
  • Ukrainian: лось (losʹ)

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), *olsь/*olsъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 79

Further reading

Russian

Лось

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic лось (losĭ), from Proto-Slavic *olsь, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (deer), whence English elk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɫosʲ]
  • (file)

Noun

лось (losʹ) m anim (genitive ло́ся, nominative plural ло́си, genitive plural лосе́й or ло́сей, feminine лоси́ха, related adjective лоси́ный)

  1. moose (U.S., Canada), elk (British) (an animal belonging to the Alces genus)
    Synonym: (regional) соха́тый (soxátyj)

Declension

  • лосёнок m (losjónok)
  • лося́тина f (losjátina)

See also

Ukrainian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian лось.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɫɔsʲ]
  • (file)

Noun

лось (losʹ) m animal (genitive ло́ся, nominative plural ло́сі, genitive plural ло́сів)

  1. elk, moose

Declension

References

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