Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/moldežь

From *molděti (“to appear young”) +‎ *-ežь.

*moldežь f

1. youth

   Antonym: *starežь

• *molděžь

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• *moldežьnъ (“youthful”)
• *moldežьskъ (“juvenile”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: молодежь (molodežĭ) (occasionally молодѣжь (moloděžĭ))
  • Belarusian: молодзя́ж (molodzjáž), молодзéж (molodzéž), мо́ладзеш (móladzješ)
  • Russian: молоде́жь (molodéžʹ), мо́лодёжь (mólodjožʹ)
  • Ukrainian: мо́лодіж (mólodiž)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: младежь (mladežĭ) (occasionally младѣжь (mladěžĭ))
  • Bulgarian: младе́ж f (mladéž)
  • Macedonian: младеж (mladež)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мла̏деж

    Latin: mlȁdež

  • Slovene: mlȃdež (“new moon”)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: młodzéż
  • Old Czech: mládež
    • Czech: mládež
  • Old Polish: młodzież
    • Masurian: młodżiez
    • Polish: młodzież
    • Silesian: modziyż
  • Slovak: mládež

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*moldežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 154
• Georgiev, Vladimir I.; Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “младеж”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 152
• Snoj, Marko (2016), “mlȃdež”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si

From *moldъ (“young”) +‎ *-ežь.

*moldežь m

1. young person

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• *moldikъ, *moldiťь, *moldičь (“child, young one”)
• *moldokъ (“novice, youth”)
• *moldьcь (“child”)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: младе́ж m (mladéž)
  • Macedonian: младеж (mladež)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: мла̏деж

    Latin script: mlȁdež