Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/junostь

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

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Etymology

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From *junъ (young) +‎ *-ostь.

Noun

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*junostь f

  1. youth (age)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ю́насць (júnascʹ)
    • Russian: ю́ность (júnostʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ю́ність (júnistʹ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: юность (junostĭ)

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*junostь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 194