Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gornostajь

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

Noun

*gornostajь m

1. stoat, ermine (Mustela erminea)

Declension

Declension of *gornostajь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gornostajь	*gornostaja	*gornostaji
genitive	*gornostaja	*gornostaju	*gornostajь
dative	*gornostaju	*gornostajema	*gornostajemъ
accusative	*gornostajь	*gornostaja	*gornostaję̇
instrumental	*gornostajьmь, *gornostajemь*	*gornostajema	*gornostaji
locative	*gornostaji	*gornostaju	*gornostajixъ
vocative	*gornostaju	*gornostaja	*gornostaji

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: гороностаи (goronostai)
    • Russian: горноста́й (gornostáj)
    • Ukrainian: горноста́й (hornostáj)
• South Slavic:
  • Slovene: gránosəlj, gránozəlj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hranostaj
    • Czech: hranostaj
  • Polish: gronostaj, gronostal
  • Slovak: hranostaj

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “горноста́й”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gornostajь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 48