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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/postъ

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 Old High German fasta[1], from Proto-Germanic *fastuz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂(s)- (“to guard, to hold onto”).

Noun

*postъ m[1][2][3]

  1. fast (period of restricted eating)

Inflection
Declension of *pòstъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *pòstъ *postà *postì
Accusative *pòstъ *postà *postỳ
Genitive *postà *postù *pòstъ
Locative *postě̀ *postù *pòstěxъ
Dative *postù *postòma *postòmъ
Instrumental *postъ̀mь, *postòmь* *postòma *pòsty
Vocative *poste *postà *postì
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms
  • *postiti (“to fast”)
  • *postьnъ (“lean”, adj.)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: постъ (postŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: постъ (postŭ)
    • Bulgarian: пост (post)
    • Macedonian: пост (post)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: по̑ст
      Latin script: pȏst
    • Slovene: pȍst (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: půst
    • Polish: post
    • Slovak: pôst
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: spót
      • Upper Sorbian: póst

Non-Slavic:

  • → Romanian: post (“fasting”)

Further reading

References
  1. Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎ (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 135: “PSl. *postъ ‘fast, Lent’ (m. o-stem), ap B”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “postъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b faste (PR 134)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “post”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “stcslovan. postъ [...], prevzeto iz stvnem. fasta”
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