Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/milostь

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *meilastis, from Proto-Indo-European *meyHlostis. Morphologically from *milъ + *-ostь. Cognate with Lithuanian mielastis.

Noun

*milostь f

1. mercy

Declension

Declension of *milostь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*milostь	*milosti	*milosti
genitive	*milosti	*milostьju, *milosťu*	*milostьjь, *milosti*
dative	*milosti	*milostьma	*milostьmъ
accusative	*milostь	*milosti	*milosti
instrumental	*milostьjǫ, *milosťǫ*	*milostьma	*milostьmi
locative	*milosti	*milostьju, *milosťu*	*milostьxъ
vocative	*milosti	*milosti	*milosti

^* 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: милость (milostĭ)
    • Russian: ми́лость (mílostʹ)
    • Ukrainian: милість (mylistʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: милость (milostĭ)
  • Bulgarian: ми́лост (mílost)
  • Macedonian: милост (milost)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ми̏ло̄ст

    Latin: mȉlōst

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: milost
    • Czech: milost
  • Old Polish: miłość
    • Polish: miłość

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*milostь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 39