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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/serdina
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *serda + *-ina.
Noun
*serdina f
- middle
Declension
Declension of *serdina (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *serdina | *serdině | *serdiny |
Accusative | *serdinǫ | *serdině | *serdiny |
Genitive | *serdiny | *serdinu | *serdinъ |
Locative | *serdině | *serdinu | *serdinasъ, *serdinaxъ* |
Dative | *serdině | *serdinama | *serdinamъ |
Instrumental | *serdinojǫ, *serdinǫ** | *serdinama | *serdinami |
Vocative | *serdino | *serdině | *serdiny |
* -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).
** 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 Ruthenian: сере́дина (serédina)
- Belarusian: сярэ́дзіна (sjarédzina), серэ́дзіна (sjerédzina)
- Ukrainian: сере́дина (serédyna), середи́на (seredýna)
- Russian: середи́на (seredína)
- Old Ruthenian: сере́дина (serédina)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: [Term?]
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- → Russian: среди́на (sredína)
- Bulgarian: средина (sredina)
- Macedonian: средина (sredina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: средѝна
- Latin: sredìna
- Slovene: sredína (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: srjedźina
- Sorbian:
Further reading
- Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “сярэ́дзіна”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka