Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krotostь

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 *krotъkъ (“meek”) +‎ *-ostь.

Noun

*krotostь f

1. meekness

Inflection

Declension of *krotostь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*krotostь	*krotosti	*krotosti
genitive	*krotosti	*krotostьju, *krotosťu*	*krotostьjь, *krotosti*
dative	*krotosti	*krotostьma	*krotostьmъ
accusative	*krotostь	*krotosti	*krotosti
instrumental	*krotostьjǫ, *krotosťǫ*	*krotostьma	*krotostьmi
locative	*krotosti	*krotostьju, *krotosťu*	*krotostьxъ
vocative	*krotosti	*krotosti	*krotosti

^* 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:
  • Old East Slavic: кротость (krotostĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: кро́тость (krótostʹ)
      • Ukrainian: кро́тість (krótistʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: кротость (krotostĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⱃⱁⱅⱁⱄⱅⱐ (krotostĭ)

    • → Russian: кро́тость (krótostʹ)
  • Bulgarian: кро̀тост (kròtost)
  • Macedonian: кротост (krotost)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: krotość (obsolete)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*krotostь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 18