Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sedmica

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 *sedmь (“7”) +‎ *-ica.

Compare Upper Sorbian sedmka, sedymka (“7-pip card”)[1], Lower Sorbian sedymka (“7”)[2], Belarusian сёмка (sjómka, “7-pip card”)[3], семъ-дзёнъ (“7-days-old animal”)[4], Ukrainian сі́мка (símka, “7; 7-pip card”)[5] and Russian семи́на (semína, “week”)[6].

Meaning "week" is calque of Ancient Greek ἑβδομάς (hebdomás, “7; 7 days, week; 7 years”) or Vulgar Latin septimāna (“week”). See also Latin hebdomas, Tajik ҳафта (hafta, “week”), Sanskrit सप्ताह (saptāha, “7 days, week”), Hungarian hét (“7; week”).

Per Melnychuk, Old East Slavic седмица (sedmica) is borrowing from Church Slavonic.[7]

Noun

*sedmica f

septuple (set or order of seven)

Inflection

Declension of *sedmica (soft a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*sedmica	*sedmici	*sedmicę̇
Accusative	*sedmicǫ	*sedmici	*sedmicę̇
Genitive	*sedmicę̇	*sedmicu	*sedmicь
Locative	*sedmici	*sedmicu	sedmicasъ, sedmicaxъ^*
Dative	*sedmici	*sedmicama	*sedmicamъ
Instrumental	sedmicejǫ, sedmicǫ^**	*sedmicama	*sedmicami
Vocative	*sedmice	*sedmici	*sedmicę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: седмица (sedmica, “7; 7 days, week; day 7, Saturday”)[8][9], семица (semica, “7”)[10][11]
  - Old Ruthenian: седми́ца (sedmícʲa, “week; seven times”)
    - Ukrainian: седми́ця (sedmýcja, “week”)[12], семиця (semycja, “week; 7-limit tuning?”)[13]
  - Russian: седми́ца (sedmíca, “7 days, week”), седьми́ца (sedʹmíca)
South Slavic:
- Church Slavonic седмица (sedmica)[14]
- Bulgarian: седми́ца (sedmíca, “septuple”), се́дмица (sédmica, “week”)
- Macedonian: седмица (sedmica)
- Serbo-Croatian::
  Cyrillic: сѐдмица
  Latin: sèdmica
- Slovene: sedmica[15][16]
West Slavic:
- Czech: sedmice[17][18]

References

Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), “sedmka, sedymka”, in Łužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch (in German), Budyšin: Maćica Serbska, page 629
Muka, Arnošt (1928), “sedymka”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), volume 2, Prague: ČAVU, page 396; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
I. I. Nosovič, editor (1870), “сёмка”, in Slovarʹ bělorusskago narěčija (in Russian), volume 1–2, Saint Petersburg: The Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 577
I. I. Nosovič, editor (1870), “семъ-дзёнъ”, in Slovarʹ bělorusskago narěčija (in Russian), volume 1–2, Saint Petersburg: The Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 577
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “сім”, in Етимологічний словник української мови: у 7 т. [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 7 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
Сороколетов, Ф. П., editor (2003), “семи́на”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 37, Saint Petersburg: Nauka, page 156
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “седми́ця”, in Етимологічний словник української мови: у 7 т. [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 7 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
Bogatova, G. A., editor (2000), “седмица”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11–17th cent.] (in Russian), issue 24 (се – скорый), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 27
Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “седмица”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3: Р – Ꙗ и дополненія, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 321
Bogatova, G. A., editor (2000), “семица”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11–17th cent.] (in Russian), issue 24 (се – скорый), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 56
Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “семица”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3: Р – Ꙗ и дополненія, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 332
Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1924), “седми́ця”, in Словарь української мови [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), volume 2: О – Я, Berlin: Ukrainske Slowo, page 622
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “сім”, in Етимологічний словник української мови: у 7 т. [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 7 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
Franz Miklosich (1862–1865), “седмица”, in Lexicon Palaeoslovenico-Graeco-Latinum emendatum auctum, Vienna: Guilelmus Braumueller, page 835
Snoj, Marko (2016), “sẹ́dem”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si
Maks Pleteršnik, editor (1895), “sedmíca”, in Slovensko-nemški slovar (in Slovene), volume 2, Ljubljana: Knezoškofijstvo, page 464
František Št. Kott (1882), “sedmice”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: František Šimáček, page 292
František Št. Kott (1893), “sedmice”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: František Šimáček, page 662