Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/radi

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/radi

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

Possibly an Iranian borrowing; compare Old Persian 𐎼𐎠𐎮𐎡𐎹 (r-a-di-i-y /rādiy/, “on the account of”). Descended from the Proto-Indo-European root *r̥ / *rō / *rō-dʰi, for (enclitic), "for the purpose of", Ved. r̥ and OCS ради.

Postposition

*radi[1]

1. for the sake of

See also

• *děľa
• *raděti

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: зара́дзі (zarádzi)
  • Russian: ра́ди (rádi), зара́ди (zarádi)
  • Ukrainian: ра́ди (rády), зара́ди (zarády)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ради (radi), радьма (radĭma)
  • Bulgarian: заради́ (zaradí), поради́ (poradí)
  • Macedonian: за́ради (záradi), по́ради (póradi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ра̏ди, за̏ради, за̏рад, по̏ради

    Latin: rȁdi, zȁradi, zȁrad, pȍradi

  • Slovene: zarȃdi, zaràd, rȃdi

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*radi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 432: “postp. ‘for the sake of ’”

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ради”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. (1993), “ради”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 93
• В. В. Мартынов (1981), “Балто-славяно-иранские языковые отношения и глоттогенез славян. děľa – radi 'для, ради'.”, in Балто-славянские исследования. 1980., Moscow: Nauka, page 21