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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *blědъ (“pale”) + *-ostь (“-ness”).
Noun
*blědostь f
- paleness
- Synonyms: *blědota, *blědoba
Inflection
* 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:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*blědostь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 111