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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glupostь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *glupъ (“stupid”) + *-ostь.
Noun
*glupostь f
- stupidity
Inflection
Declension of *glupostь (i-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *glupostь | *gluposti | *gluposti |
Accusative | *glupostь | *gluposti | *gluposti |
Genitive | *gluposti | *glupostьju, *gluposťu* | *glupostьjь, *gluposti* |
Locative | *gluposti | *glupostьju, *gluposťu* | *glupostьxъ |
Dative | *gluposti | *glupostьma | *glupostьmъ |
Instrumental | *glupostьjǫ, *gluposťǫ* | *glupostьma | *glupostьmi |
Vocative | *gluposti | *gluposti | *gluposti |
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: глупость (glupostʹ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: глупость (glupostĭ)
- Glagolitic: ⰳⰾⱆⱂⱁⱄⱅⱐ (glupostĭ)
- Bulgarian: глупост (glupost)
- Macedonian: глупост (glupost)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: глупост
- Latin: glupost
- Slovene: glupôst (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hlúpost
- Czech: hloupost
- Moravian (Mistřice): húposť
- Czech: hloupost
- Old Polish: głupość
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: hłuposć
- Lower Sorbian: głuposć
- Old Czech: hlúpost
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glupostь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 151