Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/starostь

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 *starъ (“old”) +‎ *-ostь.

Noun

*starostь f^[1]

Inflection

Accent paradigm a.

Declension of *starostь (i-stem, uncountable)
	singular
nominative	*starostь
genitive	*starosti
dative	*starosti
accusative	*starostь
instrumental	starostьjǫ, starosťǫ^*
locative	*starosti
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:
- Old East Slavic: старость (starostĭ)
  - Belarusian: ста́расць (stárascʹ)
  - Russian: ста́рость (stárostʹ)
  - Ukrainian: ста́рість (stáristʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: старость (starostĭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱄⱅⰰⱃⱁⱄⱅⱐ (starostĭ)
- Bulgarian: ста́рост (stárost)
- Macedonian: старост (starost)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ста̏ро̄ст
  
  Latin script: stȁrōst
- Slovene: stárost, starọ̑st (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: starost
- Polabian: storüst
- Old Polish: starość
  - Polish: starość

References

^ Kapović, Mate (2007) “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch‎^[1], University of Vienna, page 10: “*sta̋rostь”

[1] Kapović, Mate (2007) “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch‎^[1], University of Vienna, page 10: “*sta̋rostь”

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