Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bědьnъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bědьnъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

*běda +‎ *-ьnъ

Adjective

*bědьnъ

1. poor, wretched

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: [Term?]
    • Belarusian: бе́дны (bjédny)
    • Russian: бе́дный (bédnyj)
    • Ukrainian: бі́дний (bídnyj)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: бѣдьнъ (bědĭnŭ)
    • Bulgarian: бе́ден (béden)
  • Macedonian: беден (beden)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: бе̑дан, бије̑дан

    Latin: bȇdan, bijȇdan

  • Slovene: bẹ́dən (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: bídný, bědný
  • Polish: biedny
  • Slovak: biedny
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: bědny
    • Upper Sorbian: bědny

Further reading

• Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bědьnъ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 02, Moscow: Nauka, page 56
• Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bědьnъ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 02, Moscow: Nauka, page 58