Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/napastь

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, *na- +‎ *pastь.

Noun

*napastь f^[1]

downfall
peril, scourge

Declension

Declension of *napastь (i-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*napastь	*napasti	*napasti
genitive	*napasti	napastьju, napasťu^*	napastьjь, napasti^*
dative	*napasti	*napastьma	*napastьmъ
accusative	*napastь	*napasti	*napasti
instrumental	napastьjǫ, napasťǫ^*	*napastьma	*napastьmi
locative	*napasti	napastьju, napasťu^*	*napastьxъ
vocative	*napasti	*napasti	*napasti

^* 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: напасть (napastĭ)
  - Belarusian: напа́сць (napáscʹ)
  - Russian: напа́сть (napástʹ)
  - Ukrainian: на́па́сть (nápástʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: напасть (napastĭ)
  - Bulgarian: на́паст (nápast)
  - Macedonian: напаст (napast)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: на́паст
  
  Latin script: nápast
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: nápast
  - Czech: nápast
- Old Polish: napaść
  - Polish: napaść
- Slovak: napasc (dialectal)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1995), “*napastь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 22 (*naděliti – *narodъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 209

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1995), “*napastь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 22 (*naděliti – *narodъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 209

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