Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/neděľa

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 *ne (“not”) +‎ *dělo (“work”) +‎ *-ja. Or from *ne (“not”) +‎ *děliti (“to divide”) +‎ *-ja.

For the meaning, compare:

Sunday > week: Ojibwe anamaʼe-giizhik, Georgian კვირა (ḳvira), Romani kurko, Navajo damóo, Taos tumį́ku, Karao domingko.
summer > year: Proto-Slavic *lěto.

Noun

*nedě̀ľa f

Sunday
week

Declension

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*nedě̀ľa	*nedě̀ľi	*nedě̀ľę̇
Accusative	*nedě̀ľǫ	*nedě̀ľi	*nedě̀ľę̇
Genitive	*nedě̀ľę̇	*nedě̀ľu	*nedě̀ľь
Locative	*nedě̀ľī	*nedě̀ľu	*nedě̀ľāsъ
Dative	*nedě̀ľī	*nedě̀ľama	*nedě̀ľāmъ
Instrumental	nedě̀ľējǫ, nedě̀ľǭ^*	*nedě̀ľama	*nedě̀ľāmī
Vocative	*nedě̀ľe	*nedě̀ľi	*nedě̀ľę̇

^* 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).

Derived terms

*poneděľa

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: недѣ́лꙗ (nedě́lja)
  - Belarusian: нядзе́ля (njadzjélja)
  - Russian: неде́ля (nedélja, “week”)
  - Rusyn: недї́ля (nedjílja)
  - Ukrainian: неді́ля (nedílja)
  - → Estonian: nädal (“week”)
  - → Karelian: netäli (“week”), nedäli
    - → Kildin Sami: не̄дтӭль (njēdtʹelʹ, “week”)
  - → Latgalian: nedeļa (“week”)
  - → Latvian: nedēļa (“week”)
  - → Livonian: nädīļ (“week”)
  - → Skolt Sami: neäʹttel (“week”)
  - → Tuvan: неделя (nedelya, “week”)
  - → Yakut: нэдиэлэ (nediele, “week”)
- Old Novgorodian: недѣлѧ (nedělę)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: недѣлꙗ (nedělja)
  Glagolitic: ⱀⰵⰴⱑⰾⱑ (nedělě)
- Bulgarian: неде́ля (nedélja), недя́ля (nedjálja) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: не́дела (nédela)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: нѐдеља, нѐдјеља, нѐђеља
  Latin: nèdelja, nèdjelja, nèđelja
  - Chakavian (Vrgada): nedȉļa
  - Chakavian (Orbanići): nedȅlja
  - Kajkavian (Bednja): nedȅljo
- Slovene: nedẹ́lja (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: nedělě? (nedyelyu/nedyeliu), neděle (nedělí/nedıele/nediele), nedele (nedelu) (“Sunday; week”)
  - Czech: neděle
- Kashubian: niedzela
- Polabian: nideľă
- Old Polish: niedziela (nyedzela/nedzela/nyedzyelye)
  - Polish: niedziela
- Silesian: ńydźela
- Slovak: nedeľa
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: njeźela
  - Upper Sorbian: njedźela