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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/voskъ

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-Balto-Slavic *waśka, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱs-ko-m? (Derksen) or *woks- (Černyx).

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian vãškas (wax), Latvian vasks (wax).

Indo-European cognates include Proto-Germanic *wahsą (wax), unlikely Ancient Greek ἰξός (ixós).

Noun

*vòskъ or *vȍskъ m [1]

  1. wax

Inflection

Accent paradigm b? or c.

Descendants

Further reading

  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), воск”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
  • Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), воск”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 168

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*voskъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 529
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