Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/junoša

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *junošь

Etymology

From *junoxa +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*junoša m

1. youngster, young man

Inflection

Declension of *junoša (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*junoša	*junoši	*junošę̇
genitive	*junošę̇	*junošu	*junošь
dative	*junoši	*junošama	*junošamъ
accusative	*junošǫ	*junoši	*junošę̇
instrumental	*junošejǫ, *junošǫ**	*junošama	*junošami
locative	*junoši	*junošu	*junošasъ, *junošaxъ*
vocative	*junoše	*junoši	*junošę̇

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic: уноша (unoša)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: юноша (junoša)

    • → Russian: ю́ноша (júnoša)
  • Bulgarian: ю́ноша (júnoša)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)

    Cyrillic script: јуноша

    Latin script: junoša

  • Slovene: júnoš (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: junošě, jinošě
  • Old Polish: junosza
    • Polish: junosza (obsolete?)
  • Slovak: junoš (poetic)

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ю́ноша”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress