"gъrstь" meaning in Proto-Slavic

See gъrstь in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gursti-. Cognate with Latvian gùrste (“bundle of flax”) and possibly with Ancient Greek ἀγοστός (agostós, “flat of the hand”). Etymology templates: {{inh|sla-pro|ine-bsl-pro|*gursti-}} Proto-Balto-Slavic *gursti-, {{cog|lv|gùrste||bundle of flax}} Latvian gùrste (“bundle of flax”), {{cog|grc|ἀγοστός||flat of the hand}} Ancient Greek ἀγοστός (agostós, “flat of the hand”) Inflection templates: {{sla-decl-noun|gъ̑rstь|ap=c|g=f|stem=i}} Forms: gъ̑rstь [canonical, feminine], no-table-tags [table-tags], gъ̑rstь [nominative, singular], gъ̑rsti [dual, nominative], gъ̑rsti [nominative, plural], gъrstí [genitive, singular], gъrstьjù [dual, genitive], gъrsťu [dual, genitive], gъrstь̀jь [genitive, plural], gъ̑rsti [dative, singular], gъrstьmà [dative, dual], gъ̑rstьmъ [dative, plural], gъ̑rstь [accusative, singular], gъ̑rsti [accusative, dual], gъ̑rsti [accusative, plural], gъrstьjǫ́ [instrumental, singular], gъrstьmà [dual, instrumental], gъrstьmì [instrumental, plural], gъrstí [locative, singular], gъrstьjù [dual, locative], gъrsťu [dual, locative], gъ̑rstьxъ [locative, plural], gъrsti [singular, vocative], gъ̑rsti [dual, vocative], gъ̑rsti [plural, vocative]
  1. cupped hand Tags: reconstruction
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "lang_code": "be",
          "roman": "horscʹ",
          "word": "горсць"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "gorstʹ",
          "word": "горсть"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "lang_code": "uk",
          "roman": "horstʹ",
          "word": "горсть"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "East Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Old Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "grŭstĭ",
              "word": "гръсть"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Glagolitic script",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "grŭstĭ",
              "word": "ⰳⱃⱏⱄⱅⱐ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
          "lang_code": "cu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "grǎ́st",
          "tags": [
            "dialectal"
          ],
          "word": "гръ́ст"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "roman": "grst",
          "word": "грст"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "пре̏гр̄шт"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Latin script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "prȅgr̄št"
            },
            {
              "lang": "unknown",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "gȓs"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
          ]
        },
        {
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "lang_code": "sl",
          "word": "grst"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "South Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "unknown",
                  "lang_code": "cs",
                  "word": "hrst"
                },
                {
                  "lang": "unknown",
                  "lang_code": "cs",
                  "word": "hrsť"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Czech",
              "lang_code": "cs",
              "word": "hrst"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Czech",
          "lang_code": "zlw-ocs",
          "word": "hrst"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "word": "garść"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "lang_code": "sk",
          "word": "hrsť"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
              "lang_code": "hsb",
              "word": "horšć"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
              "lang_code": "dsb",
              "word": "gjarsć"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Sorbian",
          "lang_code": "unknown"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "West Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "lang_code": "sq",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "grusht"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Non-Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "3": "*gursti-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *gursti-",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "gùrste",
        "3": "",
        "4": "bundle of flax"
      },
      "expansion": "Latvian gùrste (“bundle of flax”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ἀγοστός",
        "3": "",
        "4": "flat of the hand"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀγοστός (agostós, “flat of the hand”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gursti-. Cognate with Latvian gùrste (“bundle of flax”) and possibly with Ancient Greek ἀγοστός (agostós, “flat of the hand”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstь",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sla-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьjù",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrsťu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstь̀jь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьmà",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstьmъ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьjǫ́",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьmà",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьmì",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьjù",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrsťu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstьxъ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gъ̑rstь",
        "ap": "c",
        "g": "f",
        "stem": "i"
      },
      "name": "sla-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
  "lang_code": "sla-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъrstь",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cupped hand"
      ],
      "id": "en-gъrstь-sla-pro-noun-TEHXSHvv",
      "links": [
        [
          "hand",
          "hand"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gъrstь"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "lang_code": "be",
          "roman": "horscʹ",
          "word": "горсць"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "gorstʹ",
          "word": "горсть"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "lang_code": "uk",
          "roman": "horstʹ",
          "word": "горсть"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "East Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Old Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "grŭstĭ",
              "word": "гръсть"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Glagolitic script",
              "lang_code": "cu",
              "roman": "grŭstĭ",
              "word": "ⰳⱃⱏⱄⱅⱐ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
          "lang_code": "cu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "grǎ́st",
          "tags": [
            "dialectal"
          ],
          "word": "гръ́ст"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "roman": "grst",
          "word": "грст"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Cyrillic script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "пре̏гр̄шт"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Latin script",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "prȅgr̄št"
            },
            {
              "lang": "unknown",
              "lang_code": "sh",
              "word": "gȓs"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "raw_tags": [
            "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
          ]
        },
        {
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "lang_code": "sl",
          "word": "grst"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "South Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "unknown",
                  "lang_code": "cs",
                  "word": "hrst"
                },
                {
                  "lang": "unknown",
                  "lang_code": "cs",
                  "word": "hrsť"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Czech",
              "lang_code": "cs",
              "word": "hrst"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Czech",
          "lang_code": "zlw-ocs",
          "word": "hrst"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "word": "garść"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "lang_code": "sk",
          "word": "hrsť"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
              "lang_code": "hsb",
              "word": "horšć"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
              "lang_code": "dsb",
              "word": "gjarsć"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Sorbian",
          "lang_code": "unknown"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "West Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "lang_code": "sq",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "grusht"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Non-Slavic",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "3": "*gursti-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Balto-Slavic *gursti-",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "gùrste",
        "3": "",
        "4": "bundle of flax"
      },
      "expansion": "Latvian gùrste (“bundle of flax”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ἀγοστός",
        "3": "",
        "4": "flat of the hand"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀγοστός (agostós, “flat of the hand”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gursti-. Cognate with Latvian gùrste (“bundle of flax”) and possibly with Ancient Greek ἀγοστός (agostós, “flat of the hand”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstь",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sla-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьjù",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrsťu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstь̀jь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьmà",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstьmъ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstь",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьjǫ́",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьmà",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьmì",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrstьjù",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrsťu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rstьxъ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъrsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gъ̑rsti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gъ̑rstь",
        "ap": "c",
        "g": "f",
        "stem": "i"
      },
      "name": "sla-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Slavic",
  "lang_code": "sla-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gъrstь",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Slavic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Slavic feminine i-stem nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic feminine nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic i-stem nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic lemmas",
        "Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c",
        "Proto-Slavic nouns",
        "Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic",
        "Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cupped hand"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hand",
          "hand"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gъrstь"
}

Download raw JSONL data for gъrstь meaning in Proto-Slavic (5.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Proto-Slavic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-09-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (20da82b and a97feda). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.