Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dostojьnъ

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.

From *dostojь +‎ *-ьnъ.

*dostojьnъ

1. worthy
2. decent, appropriate

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: достоинъ (dostoinŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: досто́йный (dostójnyj)
      • Belarusian: дасто́йны (dastójny)
      • Ukrainian: досто́йний (dostójnyj)
    • Russian: досто́йный (dostójnyj)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: достоинъ (dostoinŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰴⱁⱄⱅⱁⰻⱀⱏ (dostoinŭ)

    • Church Slavonic: достоинꙑи (dostoinyi) (Russian recension)
  • Bulgarian: досто́ен (dostóen)
  • Macedonian: достоен (dostoen)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: до́сто̄јан

    Latin script: dóstōjan

  • Slovene: dostójen (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dóstojný
    • Czech: důstojný
  • Polish: dostojny
  • Slovak: dôstojný
  • Slovincian: dôstójny
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: dostojny

    Upper Sorbian: dostójny

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dostojьnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 85