Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/usta

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).

Noun

*ūstà n pl

lips, mouth

Declension

Declension of *ūstà (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b, plural only)

	Plural
Nominative	*ūstà
Accusative	*ūstà
Genitive	*ũstъ
Locative	*ũstěxъ
Dative	*ūstòmъ
Instrumental	*ũsty
Vocative	*ūstà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: уста́ (ustá)
- Rusyn: уста (usta)
- Ukrainian: вуста́ (vustá)

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: оуста (usta)
- Bulgarian: уста́ (ustá)
- Macedonian: уста (usta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: у́ста
  
  Latin: ústa
- Slovene: ústa (tonal orthography)

West Slavic:
- Czech: ústa
- Polabian: vaustă
- Polish: usta
- Slovak: ústa
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wusta

References

Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “уста”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 509

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