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

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