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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/starostь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *starъ (“old”) + *-ostь.
Noun
*starostь f[1]
- senility
- age
Inflection
Accent paradigm a.
Declension of *starostь (i-stem, uncountable)
Singular | |
---|---|
Nominative | *starostь |
Accusative | *starostь |
Genitive | *starosti |
Locative | *starosti |
Dative | *starosti |
Instrumental | *starostьjǫ, *starosťǫ* |
Vocative | *starosti |
* 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: ста́рость (stárostʹ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: старость (starostĭ)
- Bulgarian: ста́рост (stárost)
- Macedonian: старост (starost)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ста̏ро̄ст
- Latin: stȁrōst
- Slovene: stárost, starọ̑st (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Polish: starość
References
- Kapović, Mate (2007), “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, University of Vienna, page 10: “*sta̋rostь”