Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gospodinъ

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 *gospodь +‎ *-inъ.

Noun

*gospodinъ m

1. sire, lord

Inflection

Declension of *gospodinъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*gospodinъ	*gospodina	*gospodini
genitive	*gospodina	*gospodinu	*gospodinъ
dative	*gospodinu	*gospodinoma	*gospodinomъ
accusative	*gospodinъ	*gospodina	*gospodiny
instrumental	*gospodinъmь, *gospodinomь*	*gospodinoma	*gospodiny
locative	*gospodině	*gospodinu	*gospodiněxъ
vocative	*gospodine	*gospodina	*gospodini

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: господинъ (gospodinŭ)
    • Russian: господи́н (gospodín)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: господинъ (gospodinŭ)

    • → Romanian: gospodin (obsolete)
  • Bulgarian: господи́н (gospodín)
  • Macedonian: го́сподин (góspodin)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: госпо̀дин

    Latin script: gospòdin

  • Slovene: gospodȋn (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hospodin
    • Czech: Hospodin
  • Old Polish: gospodzin
    • Middle Polish: gospodyn, hospodyn
  • Slovak: Hospodin

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gospodinъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 61