Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/junota

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

By surface analysis, *junъ +‎ *-ota.

Noun

*junota f^[1]

youth

Declension

Declension of *junota (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*junota	*junotě	*junoty
genitive	*junoty	*junotu	*junotъ
dative	*junotě	*junotama	*junotamъ
accusative	*junotǫ	*junotě	*junoty
instrumental	junotojǫ, junotǫ^**	*junotama	*junotami
locative	*junotě	*junotu	junotasъ, junotaxъ^*
vocative	*junoto	*junotě	*junoty

^* -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

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: юнота (junota)
- Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)
  Latin script: junota
- Slovene: junóta (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Polish: Junota (Personal name)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*junota”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 195

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*junota”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 195

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