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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gospoda
Proto-Slavic
    
    Etymology
    
From *gospodь (“lord”) + *-a (“collective suffix”), akin to Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).
Noun
    
*gospodà f[1]
Inflection
    
Declension of *gospodà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *gospodà | *gospòdě | *gospodỳ | 
| Accusative | *gospodǫ̀ | *gospòdě | *gospodỳ | 
| Genitive | *gospodỳ | *gospodù | *gospòdъ | 
| Locative | *gospodě̀ | *gospodù | *gospodàsъ, *gospodàxъ* | 
| Dative | *gospodě̀ | *gospodàma | *gospodàmъ | 
| Instrumental | *gospodòjǫ, *gospòdǫ** | *gospodàma | *gospodàmī | 
| Vocative | *gospodo | *gospòdě | *gospodỳ | 
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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).
** 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: господа (gospoda, “dominion”)
 
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
    
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “господа”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gospoda”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 58
References
    
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “gospoda gospody”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b herskab (PR 135)”
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