Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pakostь

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

Compare *opakъ.

Noun

*pakostь f

1. vicissitude

Inflection

Declension of *pakostь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pakostь	*pakosti	*pakosti
genitive	*pakosti	*pakostьju, *pakosťu*	*pakostьjь, *pakosti*
dative	*pakosti	*pakostьma	*pakostьmъ
accusative	*pakostь	*pakosti	*pakosti
instrumental	*pakostьjǫ, *pakosťǫ*	*pakostьma	*pakostьmi
locative	*pakosti	*pakostьju, *pakosťu*	*pakostьxъ
vocative	*pakosti	*pakosti	*pakosti

^* 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: пакость (pakostĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: па́кость (pákostʹ)
      • Belarusian: па́касць (pákascʹ)
      • Ukrainian: ка́пость (kápostʹ) (metathesised), па́кість (pákistʹ) (rare)
    • Russian: па́кость (pákostʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: пакость (pakostĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⰰⰽⱁⱄⱅⱐ (pakostĭ)

  • Bulgarian: па̀кост (pàkost)
  • Macedonian: пакост (pakost)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: па̏ко̄ст

    Latin script: pȁkōst

  • Slovene: pákost (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pakost
    • Czech: pakost
  • Old Polish: pakość
    • Polish: pakość (dialectal or obsolete)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pakosć
    • Upper Sorbian: pakosć

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “па́кость”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress