Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orstъ

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-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (“to grow”).

Noun

*orstъ m

1. growth
2. height

   Synonyms: *vysota, *vysь

Inflection

Declension of *orstъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*orstъ	*orsta	*orsti
genitive	*orsta	*orstu	*orstъ
dative	*orstu	*orstoma	*orstomъ
accusative	*orstъ	*orsta	*orsty
instrumental	*orstъmь, *orstomь*	*orstoma	*orsty
locative	*orstě	*orstu	*orstěxъ
vocative	*orste	*orsta	*orsti

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

adjective

• *orstlъ

 

nouns

• *orstežь
• *orsťa

 

verbs

• *orsti
• *orstiti

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ростъ (rostŭ)
    • Belarusian: рост (rost)
    • Russian: рост (rost)
    • Ukrainian: ріст (rist)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: растъ (rastŭ)

  • Bulgarian: ръст (rǎst)
  • Macedonian: раст (rast)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: ра̑ст
    • Latin script: rȃst
  • Slovene: rȃst (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: róst
    • Czech: růst
  • Polabian: rüst
  • Polish: rost (dialectal)
  • Slovak: rast
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: róst

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: rast

Further reading

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