Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xorbrostь

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 *xorbrъ (“brave”) +‎ *-ostь (“-ness”).

Noun

*xorbrostь f

1. braveness, valour

Declension

Declension of *xorbrostь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xorbrostь	*xorbrosti	*xorbrosti
genitive	*xorbrosti	*xorbrostьju, *xorbrosťu*	*xorbrostьjь, *xorbrosti*
dative	*xorbrosti	*xorbrostьma	*xorbrostьmъ
accusative	*xorbrostь	*xorbrosti	*xorbrosti
instrumental	*xorbrostьjǫ, *xorbrosťǫ*	*xorbrostьma	*xorbrostьmi
locative	*xorbrosti	*xorbrostьju, *xorbrosťu*	*xorbrostьxъ
vocative	*xorbrosti	*xorbrosti	*xorbrosti

^* 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: хра́брасць (xrábrascʹ)
  • Russian: хоробрость (xorobrostʹ) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: хоробрість (xorobristʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: храбрость (xrabrostĭ)

    • → Russian: хра́брость (xrábrostʹ)
  • Bulgarian: хра́брост (hrábrost)
  • Macedonian: храброст (hrabrost)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хра́бро̄ст

    Latin script: hrábrōst

  • Slovene: hrábrost
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chrabrost
  • Polish: chrobrość (rare)
  • Slovak: chrabrosť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: khrobłosć
    • Lower Sorbian: chrobrosć (obsolete)

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xorbrostь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 71