Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/měsęcь

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 earlier *mēs-en-ko, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁ns-(e)n-ko-.

Noun

*mě̀sę̄cь m[1][2]

moon
Synonym: *luna, *kъnęžiťь
month

Inflection

Declension of *mě̀sę̄cь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*mě̀sę̄cь	*mě̀sę̄ca	*mě̀sę̄ci
Accusative	*mě̀sę̄cь	*mě̀sę̄ca	*mě̀sę̄cę̇
Genitive	*mě̀sę̄ca	*mě̀sę̄cu	*mě̀sę̄cь
Locative	*mě̀sę̄ci	*mě̀sę̄cu	*mě̀sę̄cīxъ
Dative	*mě̀sę̄cu	*mě̀sę̄cema	*mě̀sę̄cēmъ
Instrumental	mě̀sę̄cьmь, mě̀sę̄cemь^*	*mě̀sę̄cema	*mě̀sę̄cī
Vocative	*mě̀sę̄če	*mě̀sę̄ca	*mě̀sę̄ci

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

*měsęčina

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мѣсѧць (měsęcĭ)
  - Belarusian: ме́сяц (mjésjac)
  - Russian: ме́сяц (mésjac)
  - Rusyn: мі́сяць (mísjacʹ)
  - Ukrainian: мі́сяць (mísjacʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Cyrillic: мѣсѧць (měsęcĭ)
  - Glagolitic: ⰿⱑⱄⱔⱌⱐ (měsęcĭ)
- Bulgarian: ме́сец (mésec), ме́синц (mésinc) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: ме́сец (mésec)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  - Cyrillic: ме̏се̄ц, мје̏се̄ц
  - Roman: mȅsēc, mjȅsēc
- Slovene: mẹ̑səc (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: měsiec
  - Czech: měsíc
- Kashubian: miesidz, miesąc, miesądz
- Old Polish: miesiąc
  - Polish: miesiąc
- Silesian: mjeśůnc
- Slovak: mesiac
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: mjasec
  - Upper Sorbian: měsac

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mě̀sę̄cь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312: “m. jo (a) ‘moon, month’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “měsęcь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mě̀sę̄cь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312: “m. jo (a) ‘moon, month’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “měsęcь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”