Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dьnьsь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dьnьsь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

From *dьnь (“day”) +‎ *sь (“this”).

Adverb

*dьnьsь[1]

1. today

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дьньсь (dĭnĭsĭ), денесь (denesĭ)
    • Russian: (obsolete) днесь (dnesʹ)
    • Ukrainian: (obsolete) днесь (dnesʹ)
    • Rusyn: днесь (dnesʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: дьньсь (dĭnĭsĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰴⱐⱀⱐⱄⱐ (dĭnĭsĭ)

  • Bulgarian: днес (dnes), де́нес (dénes) (dialectal), дънъс (dǎnǎs) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: денес (denes)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: данас

    Latin: dànas

    Chakavian danȁs

  • Slovene: dánes (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dnes
    • Czech: dnes
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): dnes
  • Kashubian: dzys, dzysô
  • Old Polish: dzińsia
    • Polish: dziś
  • Polabian: dans
  • Slovak: dnes
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: źinsa
    • Upper Sorbian: dźens, dźensa

Related terms

• *dьnьsьka (*dьnьsь +‎ *-ka (“pronomial suffix for manner/amount”))
  • Bulgarian: днеска (dneska) (colloquial), дънъска (dǎnǎska) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: денеска (deneska) (colloquial)
  • Czech: dneska
• *sego dьne (genitive of *sь dьnь)
  • Belarusian: сяго́ння (sjahónnja), сёння (sjónnja)
  • Russian: сего́дня (sevódnja)
  • Ukrainian: сього́дні (sʹohódni)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “днесь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dьnьsь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 215

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dьnьsь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 135: “adv. ‘today’”