Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mǫdrostь

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 *mǫdrъ (“wise”) +‎ *-ostь.

Noun

*mǫdrostь f

1. wisdom, sagacity

Inflection

Declension of *mǫdrostь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mǫdrostь	*mǫdrosti	*mǫdrosti
genitive	*mǫdrosti	*mǫdrostьju, *mǫdrosťu*	*mǫdrostьjь, *mǫdrosti*
dative	*mǫdrosti	*mǫdrostьma	*mǫdrostьmъ
accusative	*mǫdrostь	*mǫdrosti	*mǫdrosti
instrumental	*mǫdrostьjǫ, *mǫdrosťǫ*	*mǫdrostьma	*mǫdrostьmi
locative	*mǫdrosti	*mǫdrostьju, *mǫdrosťu*	*mǫdrostьxъ
vocative	*mǫdrosti	*mǫdrosti	*mǫdrosti

^* 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: му́драсць (múdrascʹ)
  • Russian: му́дрость (múdrostʹ)
  • Ukrainian: му́дрість (múdristʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: мѫдрость (mǫdrostĭ)

  • Bulgarian: мъ́дрост (mǎ́drost)
  • Macedonian: мудрост (mudrost)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: му́дро̄ст

    Latin script: múdrōst

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: moudrost
  • Polish: mądrość
  • Slovak: múdrosť

Further reading

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мъдър”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 373