Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gostь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gostь

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gastis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis. Cognate with Latgalian gosts.

Noun

*gȍstь m[1][2]

1. guest

Inflection

Declension of *gȍstь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*gȍstь	*gȍsti	*gȍstьjē, *gȍsťē*
Accusative	*gȍstь	*gȍsti	*gȍsti
Genitive	*gostí	*gostьjù, *gosťu*	*gostь̀jь
Locative	*gostí	*gostьjù, *gosťu*	*gȍstьxъ
Dative	*gȍsti	*gostьmà	*gȍstьmъ
Instrumental	*gȍstьmь	*gostьmà	*gostьmì
Vocative	*gosti	*gȍsti	*gȍstьjē, *gȍsťē*

^* 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).

Derived terms

• *gostinъ (“guest's, guest-”)
• *gostiti (“to host”)
• *gostina (“hospitality”)
• *gostьba (“dish”)
  • Bulgarian гозба (gozba)
• *gosti (“female guest”)

Related terms

• *gospodь (“lord; master”)
• *Gostislavъ
• *Bъdigostь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гость (gostĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: гость (hostʹ)
      • Belarusian: госць (hoscʹ)
      • Rusyn: гость (hostʹ)
      • Ukrainian: гість (histʹ)
    • Russian: гость (gostʹ)
  • Old Novgorodian: гость (gostĭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: гость (gostĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰳⱁⱄⱅⱐ (gostĭ)

  • Bulgarian: гост (gost)
  • Macedonian: гост (gost)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: го̑ст

    Latin: gȏst

  • Slovene: gȍst (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: host
    • Czech: host
  • Kashubian: gòsc, gòst
  • Polabian: ďüst
  • Polish: gość
  • Slovak: hosť
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: gósć
    • Upper Sorbian: hósć

Further reading

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

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*gȏstь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 180: “m. i (c) ‘guest’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “gostь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 156; PR 138)”