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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *medús, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Noun

*mȅdъ m [1][2]

  1. honey
  2. mead

Inflection
Declension of *mȅdъ (u-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *mȅdъ *mȅdy *mȅdove
Accusative *mȅdъ *mȅdy *mȅdy
Genitive *mȅdu *medovù *medòvъ
Locative *medú *medovù *mȅdъxъ
Dative *mȅdovi *medъmà *mȅdъmъ
Instrumental *mȅdъmь *medъmà *medъmì
Vocative *medu *mȅdy *mȅdove

Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: медъ (medŭ)
      Glagolitic: ⰿⰵⰴⱏ (medŭ)
    • Bulgarian: мед (med)
    • Macedonian: мед (med)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: ме̑д
      Latin: mȇd
    • Slovene: mẹ̑d (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
  • → Romanian: mied

Further reading
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “мед”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mȇdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306: “m. u (c) ‘honey, mead’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “medъ medu”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c honey (NA 126, 128, 142; SA 25, 140, 177; PR 137)”
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