pȍjāsъ

pȍjāsъ Grammatical information: m. o Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `girdle'

Old Church Slavic:

pojasъ `girdle' [m o] \{1\}

Russian:

pójas `girdle' [m o]

Old Russian:

pojasъ `girdle' [m o];

pojasьnica `girdle' [j ā]

Czech:

pás `girdle' [m o]

Slovak:

pás `girdle' [m o]

Polish:

pas `girdle' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

pȍjās `girdle' [m o];

pȃs `girdle' [m o], pȃsa [Gens];

Čak. på̄s (Vrgada) `girdle' [m o], på̄sa [Gens];

Čak. pȃs (Vrgada) `belt, waist, stripe' [m o], pȃsa [Gens]

Slovene:

pȃs `girdle' [m o/u], pȃsa [Gens], pasȗ [Gens];

pojȃs `girdle' [m o]

Bulgarian:

pójas `girdle' [m o]

Lithuanian:

júosta `girdle' [f ā]

Comments: Prefixed noun consisting of -> *po- and *jasъ < *ie/oh₃s-o- from a PIE verbal root meaning `to gird'.

Other cognates:

Gk. ζώστήρ `girdle'

;

Gk. ζωστός `girdled' [ppp];

Av. yāstá- `girdled' [ppp]

Notes:

\{1\} The verb is pojasati, 1sg. pojašǫ [1sg] or pojasajǫ [1sg].