Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gospoda
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom *gospodь (“lord”) + *-a (“collective suffix”), akin to Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).
Noun
edit*gospodà f[1]
- dominion, sovereignty, property
- (by specialization) hostel, tavern, inn
- Synonym: *gosti(lь)nica
Inflection
editDeclension of *gospodà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *gospodà | *gospòdě | *gospodỳ |
genitive | *gospodỳ | *gospodù | *gospòdъ |
dative | *gospodě̀ | *gospodàma | *gospodàmъ |
accusative | *gospodǫ̀ | *gospòdě | *gospodỳ |
instrumental | *gospodòjǫ, *gospòdǫ** | *gospodàma | *gospodàmī |
locative | *gospodě̀ | *gospodù | *gospodàsъ, *gospodàxъ* |
vocative | *gospodo | *gospòdě | *gospodỳ |
* -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).
** 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
edit- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: господа (gospoda, “dominion”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: господа (gospoda, “hostel”)
- Serbo-Croatian: gospòda
- Slovene: gospóda (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
References
editFurther reading
edit- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “господа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gospoda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 58