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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gospoďa

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 *gospodь +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*gospoďa f[1][2]

  1. lady

Inflection
Declension of *gospoďa (soft a-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *gospoďa *gospoďi *gospoďę̇
Accusative *gospoďǫ *gospoďi *gospoďę̇
Genitive *gospoďę̇ *gospoďu *gospoďь
Locative *gospoďi *gospoďu *gospoďasъ, *gospoďaxъ*
Dative *gospoďi *gospoďama *gospoďamъ
Instrumental *gospoďejǫ, *gospoďǫ** *gospoďama *gospoďami
Vocative *gospoďe *gospoďi *gospoďę̇
* -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).

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: госпожа (gospoža)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic: госпожда (gospožda)
      Glagolitic: ⰳⱁⱄⱂⱁⰶⰴⰰ (gospožda)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: го̏спођа
      Latin: gȍspođa
      • Chakavian (Vrgada): gȍspoja
      • Chakavian (Orlec): Gospojȁ (“Virgin Mary”)
      • Chakavian (Crikvenica): Gȍspoja (“Virgin Mary”)
      • Chakavian (Grobnik): Gȍspoja (“Virgin Mary”)
    • Slovene: gospá (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Polish: gospodza
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: hospoza
      • Lower Sorbian: góspoza

References
  1. Olander, Thomas (2001), “gospodja gospodjě”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b dame, frue (PR 135)”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “gospá”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*gospod'a̋”
  3. Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1986), “госпожа”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 7 (гляденье – девичество), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 111
  4. Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “госпожа”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ – 15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 256
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