-ость

Old Church Slavonic

suffix

Definitions

ness, -ity; deadjectival nominalizing suffix used to create an i-stem feminine noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a quality.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ostь.

Origin

Proto-Slavic

*-ostь

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

-ость Russian
-ość Polish
*-ostь Proto-Slavic
-ost Czech
-ost Serbo-Croatian
-ост Serbo-Croatian
dragoste Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
-ост Macedonian
-ість Ukrainian
-osť Slovak
-осць Belarusian
-ost Slovene
бъдрость Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian

бъдрость