Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/roďьstvo

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 *roditi +‎ *-ьstvo.

Noun

*roďьstvo n

birth
birthday
Christmas (festival celebrating the birth of Jesus)

Declension

Declension of *roďьstvo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*roďьstvo	*roďьstvě	*roďьstva
genitive	*roďьstva	*roďьstvu	*roďьstvъ
dative	*roďьstvu	*roďьstvoma	*roďьstvomъ
accusative	*roďьstvo	*roďьstvě	*roďьstva
instrumental	roďьstvъmь, roďьstvomь^*	*roďьstvoma	*roďьstvy
locative	*roďьstvě	*roďьstvu	*roďьstvěxъ
vocative	*roďьstvo	*roďьstvě	*roďьstva

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: рожьство (rožĭstvo), рожество (rožestvo)
  - Old Ruthenian: рожество́ (rožestvó), рожство́ (rožstvó), розство́ (rozstvó), розтво́ (roztvó), роство́ (rostvó)
    - Belarusian: раство́ (rastvó), ражаство́ (ražastvó), рожество́ (rožjestvó), роздво́ (rozdvó), ражство́ (ražstvó), рождво́ (roždvó)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: ріство́ (ristvó)
    - Ukrainian: різдво́ (rizdvó), Різдво́ (Rizdvó)
  - Russian: рожство́ (rožstvó), рожество́ (rožestvó) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: рождьство (roždĭstvo), розьство (rozĭstvo)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱃⱁⰶⰴⱐⱄⱅⰲⱁ (roždĭstvo), ⱃⱁⰸⱐⱄⱅⰲⱁ (rozĭstvo)
  - Bulgarian: рождество́ (roždestvó)
  - Macedonian: рождество (roždestvo) (archaic)
  - → Old East Slavic: рождьство (roždĭstvo)
    - Old Ruthenian: рождество́ (roždestvó)
      - Belarusian: ражджаство́ (raždžastvó)
    - Russian: рождество́ (roždestvó)
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: рождѐство
    
    Latin script: roždèstvo
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: родство
  
  Latin script: rodstvo
- Slovene: rizdvo

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