Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glupostь

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 *glupъ (“stupid”) +‎ *-ostь.

Noun

*glupostь f

1. stupidity

Inflection

Declension of *glupostь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*glupostь	*gluposti	*gluposti
genitive	*gluposti	*glupostьju, *gluposťu*	*glupostьjь, *gluposti*
dative	*gluposti	*glupostьma	*glupostьmъ
accusative	*glupostь	*gluposti	*gluposti
instrumental	*glupostьjǫ, *gluposťǫ*	*glupostьma	*glupostьmi
locative	*gluposti	*glupostьju, *gluposťu*	*glupostьxъ
vocative	*gluposti	*gluposti	*gluposti

^* 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:
  • Russian: глупость (glupostʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: глупость (glupostĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰳⰾⱆⱂⱁⱄⱅⱐ (glupostĭ)

  • Bulgarian: глупост (glupost)
  • Macedonian: глупост (glupost)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: глупост

    Latin script: glupost

  • Slovene: glupôst (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hlúpost
    • Czech: hloupost
      • Moravian (Mistřice): húposť
  • Old Polish: głupość
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: hłuposć
    • Lower Sorbian: głuposć

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glupostь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 151