Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/starostь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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]

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”

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