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

Etymology

From *junъ (“young”) +‎ *-ostь.

Noun

*junostь f

1. youth (age)

Inflection

Declension of *junostь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*junostь	*junosti	*junosti
genitive	*junosti	*junostьju, *junosťu*	*junostьjь, *junosti*
dative	*junosti	*junostьma	*junostьmъ
accusative	*junostь	*junosti	*junosti
instrumental	*junostьjǫ, *junosťǫ*	*junostьma	*junostьmi
locative	*junosti	*junostьju, *junosťu*	*junostьxъ
vocative	*junosti	*junosti	*junosti

^* 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:
  • Belarusian: ю́насць (júnascʹ)
  • Russian: ю́ность (júnostʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ю́ність (júnistʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: юность (junostĭ)

Further reading

• 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