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

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*junoša/junošь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 195