госць

Belarusian

Alternative forms

• госьць (hosʹcʹ) — Taraškievica orthography
• hоść — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

From Old Belarusian гость (hostʹ), from Old East Slavic гость (gostĭ), from Proto-Slavic *gostь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gástis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɣosʲt͡sʲ]

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Noun

госць • (hoscʹ) m pers (genitive го́сця, nominative plural го́сці, genitive plural гасце́й, feminine го́сця, relational adjective гасцявы́)

1. guest

Declension

Declension of госць (pr soft masc-form accent-e)

	singular	plural
nominative	госць hoscʹ	го́сці hósci
genitive	го́сця hóscja	гасце́й hascjéj
dative	го́сцю hóscju	гасця́м hascjám
accusative	го́сця hóscja	гасце́й hascjéj
instrumental	го́сцем hóscjem	гасця́мі hascjámi
locative	го́сцю hóscju	гасця́х hascjáx
count form	—	го́сці1 hósci1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

Derived terms

• гасці́ніца (hascínica)

References

• “госць” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• “госць”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)