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Where does “скѫдость” come from?

скѫдость (Old Church Slavonic) comes from Old Church Slavonic -ость, from Proto-Slavic -ostь — Used with adjectival stems to form abstract...

скѫдость (Old Church Slavonic): scarcity

Definitions

  1. scarcity

Ancestry of “скѫдость”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Church Slavonic-ость-ness, -ity; deadjectival nominalizing suffix...
2Proto-Slavic-ostьUsed with adjectival stems to form abstract...
Every word from Proto-Slavic -ostь →