Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pěsъkъ

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

Possibly cognate with Proto-Indo-Iranian *pānsúš (“dust”). According to Vasmer, related to Armenian փոշի (pʻoši, “dust”).

Noun

*pě̄sъ̀kъ m

1. sand

Inflection

Declension of *pě̄sъ̀kъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pě̄sъ̀kъ	*pě̄sъkà	*pě̄sъcì
genitive	*pě̄sъkà	*pě̄sъkù	*pě̄sъ̀kъ
dative	*pě̄sъkù	*pě̄sъkòma	*pě̄sъkòmъ
accusative	*pě̄sъ̀kъ	*pě̄sъkà	*pě̄sъkỳ
instrumental	*pě̄sъkъ̀mь, *pě̄sъkòmь*	*pě̄sъkòma	*pě̄sъ̀ky
locative	*pě̄sъcě̀	*pě̄sъkù	*pě̄sъ̀cěxъ
vocative	*pěsъče	*pě̄sъkà	*pě̄sъcì

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: пясо́к (pjasók)
  • Russian: песо́к (pesók)
  • Ukrainian: пісо́к (pisók)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: пісок (pisok)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: пѣсъкъ (pěsŭkŭ)
    • Bulgarian: пя́сък (pjásǎk)
  • Macedonian: песок (pesok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пе́сак, пије́сак

    Latin script: pésak, pijésak

  • Slovene: pẹ́sək (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: piesek
    • Czech: písek
  • Kashubian: piôsk
  • Polabian: ṕosăk
  • Polish: piasek
  • Silesian: piŏsek
  • Slovak: piesok
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pěsk
    • Upper Sorbian: pěsk

Further reading

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