Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čistostь

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

From *čistъ (“clean, pure”) +‎ *-ostь (“-ness”).

Noun

*čistostь f

1. cleanness, cleanliness
2. purity

Declension

Declension of *čistostь (i-stem, uncountable)

	singular
nominative	*čistostь
genitive	*čistosti
dative	*čistosti
accusative	*čistostь
instrumental	*čistostьjǫ, *čistosťǫ*
locative	*čistosti
vocative	*čistosti

^* 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).

Synonyms

• *čistota

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чистость (čistostĭ)
    • Belarusian: чы́стасць (čýstascʹ)
    • Russian: чи́стость (čístostʹ) (rare)
    • Ukrainian: чи́стість (čýstistʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: чистость (čistostĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱍⰺⱄⱅⱁⱄⱅⱐ (čistostĭ)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чи̏сто̄ст

    Latin script: čȉstōst

  • Slovene: čístost
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: čistost
  • Polish: czystość
  • Slovak: čistosť (archaic)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: čistosć
    • Lower Sorbian: cystosć

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čistostь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 120
• Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1976), “*čistostь”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 2 (caca – davьnota), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 211