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. senility
2. age

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:
  • Russian: ста́рость (stárostʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: старость (starostĭ)
  • Bulgarian: ста́рост (stárost)
  • Macedonian: старост (starost)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ста̏ро̄ст

    Latin script: stȁrōst

  • Slovene: stárost, starọ̑st (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: starość