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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bezdъna
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *bez- (“without”) + *dъno (“bottom”) + *-a. Compare Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos), Sanskrit अगाध (agādha, “fathomless; abyss, chasm”) for a similar formation.
Noun
*bezdъna f
- abyss
Inflection
Declension of *bezdъna (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *bezdъna | *bezdъně | *bezdъny |
| Accusative | *bezdъnǫ | *bezdъně | *bezdъny |
| Genitive | *bezdъny | *bezdъnu | *bezdъnъ |
| Locative | *bezdъně | *bezdъnu | *bezdъnasъ, *bezdъnaxъ* |
| Dative | *bezdъně | *bezdъnama | *bezdъnamъ |
| Instrumental | *bezdъnojǫ, *bezdъnǫ** | *bezdъnama | *bezdъnami |
| Vocative | *bezdъno | *bezdъně | *bezdъny |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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).
** 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:
- Old East Slavic: бездъна (bezdŭna), бездьна (bezdĭna), бездна (bezdna)
- Belarusian: бе́зма (bjézma) (dialectal)
- Russian: бе́здна (bézdna)
- Ukrainian: бе́зна (bézna) (dialectal)
- Old East Slavic: бездъна (bezdŭna), бездьна (bezdĭna), бездна (bezdna)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: бездъна (bezdŭna)
- Glagolitic: ⰱⰵⰸⰴⱏⱀⰰ (bezdŭna)
- Bulgarian: бе́здна (bézdna)
- Macedonian: бездна (bezdna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бѐздан
- Latin: bèzdan
- Slovene: brézno (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: bezdna
- Polish: bezdna, bezdnia, bezednia, bezdeń
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: beznă (“pitch-black”)
References
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bezdъbna”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 21
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бе́здна”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress