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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/serda
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śerd-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-. Cognate with Lithuanian šerdìs (“core, kernel, pith”). For the sense "middle of the week", compare German Mittwoch.
Noun
*serdà f
- middle
- Wednesday (middle of week)
Declension
Declension of *serdà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *serdà | *sȇrdě | *sȇrdy |
| Accusative | *sȇrdǫ | *sȇrdě | *sȇrdy |
| Genitive | *serdý | *serdù | *sẽrdъ |
| Locative | *sȇrdě | *serdù | *serdàsъ, *serdàxъ* |
| Dative | *serdě̀ | *serdàma | *serdàmъ |
| Instrumental | *serdojǫ́ | *serdàma | *serdàmi |
| Vocative | *serdo | *sȇrdě | *sȇrdy |
* -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.
See also
| Days of the week in Proto-Slavic · *dьne nedě̀ľę̇/tajegodьne (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *neděľa | *ponedělъkъ *ponedělьnikъ | *vъtorъkъ *vъtorьnikъ | *serda | *četvьrtъkъ | *pętъkъ | *sǫbota |
Derived terms
- *serdъkъ (“middle, center”) (noun)
- *oserdъkъ (“middle, center”)
- *serdъkovъ (“middle, center”) (adjective)
- *serdьňь (“middle, cental”)
Related terms
- *sьrdьce (“heart”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: середа (sereda)
- Russian: середа́ (seredá)
- Old Belarusian: середа (sereda)[1]
- Belarusian: серада́ (sjeradá)
- Old Ukrainian: середа (sereda)[2]
- Ukrainian: середа́ (seredá)
- Rusyn: се́реда (séreda)
- Old East Slavic: середа (sereda)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: срѣда (srěda)
- Glagolitic: ⱄⱃⱑⰴⰰ (srěda)
- → Russian: среда́ (sredá)
- → Skolt Sami: seärad
- Bulgarian: сря́да (srjáda)
- Macedonian: среда (sreda)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сре́да, срије́да
- Latin: sréda, srijéda
- Slovene: srẹ̑da (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: střěda
- Czech: středa
- Kashubian: strzoda
- Polabian: sredă
- Old Polish: śrzoda
- Polish: środa
- Silesian: strzoda
- Slovak: streda
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: srjoda
- Upper Sorbian: srjeda
- Old Czech: střěda
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: szerda
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “середа”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2011), “середа”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 31 (рушаючий – смущенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 230
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “середа”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2: Н – Ѳ, Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 339