ȁsenъ

ȁsenь; ȁsenъ Grammatical information: m. jo; m. o Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `ash-tree'

Page in Trubačev: I 79-80

Russian:

jásen' `ash-tree' [m jo]

Czech:

jasan `ash-tree' [m o];

jasaň (dial.) `ash-tree' [m jo];

jesen (obs.) `ash-tree' [m o];

jeseň (dial.) `ash-tree' [m jo]

Slovak:

jaseň `ash-tree' [m jo]

Polish:

jesion `ash-tree' [m o];

jasień (arch., S. dial.) `ash-tree' [m jo];

jesień (arch.) `ash-tree' [m jo];

jasion (arch., S. dial.) `ash-tree' [m o] \{1\}

Old Polish:

jasień `ash-tree' [m jo]

Slovincian:

jȧ̃sȯu̯n `ash-tree' [m o]

Upper Sorbian:

jaseń `ash-tree' [m jo]

Serbo-Croatian:

jȁsēn `ash-tree' [m o], jȁsena [Gens];

Čak. jȁsen (Vrgada) `ash-tree' [m o], jȁsena [Gens];

Čak. jȅsēn (Novi) `ash-tree' [m o];

Čak. jȅsen (Orbanići) `(European) ash (tree)' [m o], jȅsena [Gens]

Slovene:

jásen `ash-tree' [m o], jasẹ́na [Gens];

jésen `ash-tree' [m o], jesẹ́na [Gens]

Bulgarian:

jásen `ash-tree' [m o];

ósen (N.) `ash-tree' [m o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: oʔs-en-; oʔs-i-o-

Lithuanian:

úosis `ash-tree' [m io] 1

Latvian:

uôsis `ash-tree' [m io]

Old Prussian:

woasis (EV) `ash-tree'

Indo-European reconstruction: Heh₃-s-

IE meaning: ash-tree

Comments: In view of the Baltic forms as well as Ru. ja- (je- > ja- is common in West Slavic and western South Slavic but not in East Slavic), we must reconstruct *oʔs- < *Heh₃-s- for Balto-Slavic. Unless the West and South Slavic forms with je-/o- continue ja- (cf. Sɫawski SP I: 159), Slavic also offers evidence for the elsewhere in Indo-European widely attested stem shape *Hh₃es. The e-vocalism could be considered an example of Rozwadowski's change (see Andersen 1996).

Other cognates:

Lat. ornus `mountain-ash' [f];

OIr. uinnius `ash-tree'

;

OIc. askr `ash-tree'

;

OHG asc `ash-tree'

;

Arm. hac'i `ash-tree';

Alb. ah `beech'

Notes:

\{1\} The Standard Polish form jesion originates from the Mazowian dialect area (Bańkowski 2000: 588).