Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gospodinъ

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 *gospodь +‎ *-inъ.^[1]

Noun

*gospodinъ m^[1]

sire, lord

Inflection

Declension of *gospodinъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gospodinъ	*gospodina	*gospodini
genitive	*gospodina	*gospodinu	*gospodinъ
dative	*gospodinu	*gospodinoma	*gospodinomъ
accusative	*gospodinъ	*gospodina	*gospodiny
instrumental	gospodinъmь, gospodinomь^*	*gospodinoma	*gospodiny
locative	*gospodině	*gospodinu	*gospodiněxъ
vocative	*gospodine	*gospodina	*gospodini

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: господинъ (gospodinŭ)
  - Russian: господи́н (gospodín)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: господинъ (gospodinŭ)
  - → Romanian: gospodin (obsolete)
- Bulgarian: господи́н (gospodín)
- Macedonian: го́сподин (góspodin)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: госпо̀дин
  
  Latin script: gospòdin
- Slovene: gospodȋn (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hospodin
  - Czech: Hospodin
- Old Polish: gospodzin
  - Middle Polish: gospodyn, hospodyn
- Slovak: Hospodin

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*gospodinь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 180: “m. o ‘lord, master’”