Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/roďьstvo

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/roďьstvo

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 *roditi +‎ *-ьstvo.

Noun

*roďьstvo n

1. birth
2. birthday
3. Christmas (festival celebrating the birth of Jesus)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рожьство (rožĭstvo), рожество (rožestvo)
    • Old Ruthenian: рожество́ (rožestvó), рожство́ (rožstvó), розство́ (rozstvó), розтво́ (roztvó), роство́ (rostvó)
      • Belarusian: раство́ (rastvó), ражаство́ (ražastvó), рожество́ (rožjestvó), роздво́ (rozdvó), ражство́ (ražstvó), рождво́ (roždvó)
      • Rusyn: ріство́ (ristvó)
      • Ukrainian: різдво́ (rizdvó), Різдво́ (Rizdvó)
    • Russian: рожство́ (rožstvó), рожество́ (rožestvó) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: рождьство (roždĭstvo), розьство (rozĭstvo)

    Glagolitic: ⱃⱁⰶⰴⱐⱄⱅⰲⱁ (roždĭstvo), ⱃⱁⰸⱐⱄⱅⰲⱁ (rozĭstvo)

    • Bulgarian: рождество́ (roždestvó)
    • Macedonian: рождество (roždestvo)
    • → Old East Slavic: рождьство (roždĭstvo)
      • Old Ruthenian: рождество́ (roždestvó)
        • Belarusian: ражджаство́ (raždžastvó)
      • Russian: рождество́ (roždestvó)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic: рождѐство

      Latin: roždèstvo

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: родство

    Latin: rodstvo

  • Slovene: rizdvo

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “Рождество”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2006), “ражаство́”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volume 11 (раб – сая́н), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 35
• Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2006), “раство́”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volume 11 (раб – сая́н), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 137