Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bezstrašьnъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom *bez- (“without”) + *straxъ (“fear”) + *-ьnъ.
Adjective
edit*bezstrašьnъ
Inflection
editIndefinite declension of *bezstrašьnъ (hard)
Definite declension of *bezstrašьnъ (hard)
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: бясстра́шны (bjasstrášny)
- Russian: бесстра́шный (besstrášnyj)
- Ukrainian: безстра́шний (bezstrášnyj)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: безстра́шен (bezstrášen)
- Macedonian: бестрашен (bestrašen)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: bezstrašný
Further reading
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bezstrašьnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 45