Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gosti

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

PIE word
*gʰóstis

From *gostь +‎ *-i.

Noun

*gosti f

  1. feminine of *gostь: female guest

Declension

Declension of *gosti (ī-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *gosti *gosťi *gosťę̇
genitive *gosťę̇ *gosťu *gosťь
dative *gosťi *gosťama *gosťamъ
accusative *gosťǫ *gosťi *gosťę̇
instrumental *gosťejǫ, *gosťǫ** *gosťama *gosťami
locative *gosťi *gosťu *gosťasъ, *gosťaxъ*
vocative *gosťe *gosťi *gosťę̇

* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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:
    • Belarusian: го́сця (hóscja)
    • Russian: го́стья (góstʹja)
    • Ukrainian: го́стя (hóstja)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: го̏шћа
      Latin script: gȍšća
    • Slovene: gôstja (tonal orthography)
      • Rovte dialect (Črni vrh, Idrija): γȗəstjȩ
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gosti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 64
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