Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pustošь

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 *pustъ (“empty”) +‎ *-ošь.

Noun

*pustošь f

1. wasteland; uninhabited, abandoned or uncultivated area

Declension

Declension of *pustošь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pustošь	*pustoši	*pustoši
genitive	*pustoši	*pustošьju, *pustošu*	*pustošьjь, *pustoši*
dative	*pustoši	*pustošьma	*pustošьmъ
accusative	*pustošь	*pustoši	*pustoši
instrumental	*pustošьjǫ, *pustošǫ*	*pustošьma	*pustošьmi
locative	*pustoši	*pustošьju, *pustošu*	*pustošьxъ
vocative	*pustoši	*pustoši	*pustoši

^* 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:
  • Russian: пу́стошь (pústošʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: поустошь (pustošĭ)
  • Bulgarian: пу̀стош (pùstoš)
  • Macedonian: пустош (pustoš)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пу́стош

    Latin script: pústoš

• West Slavic:
  • Polish: pustosz (archaic)

Further reading

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