Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gosti

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

PIE word
*gʰóstis

From *gostь +‎ *-i.

Noun

*gosti f

1. feminine of *gostь: female guest

Declension

Declension of *gosti (ī-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*gosti	*gosťi	*gosťę̇
Accusative	*gosťǫ	*gosťi	*gosťę̇
Genitive	*gosťę̇	*gosťu	*gosťь
Locative	*gosťi	*gosťu	*gosťasъ, *gosťaxъ*
Dative	*gosťi	*gosťama	*gosťamъ
Instrumental	*gosťejǫ, *gosťǫ**	*gosťama	*gosťami
Vocative	*gosťe	*gosťi	*gosťę̇

^* -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:
  • Belarusian: го́сця (hóscja)
  • Russian: го́стья (góstʹja)
  • Ukrainian: го́стя (hóstja)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: го̏шћа

    Latin: gȍšća

  • Slovene: gôstja (tonal orthography)
    • Rovte dialect (Črni vrh, Idrija): γȗəstjȩ
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hosti
  • Old Polish: gościa

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gosti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 64