Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/neděľa

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 *ne (“not”) +‎ *dělo (“work”) +‎ *-ja. Or from *ne (“not”) +‎ *děliti (“to divide”) +‎ *-ja.

Noun

*neděľa f

Sunday

Declension

Declension of *neděľa (soft a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*neděľa	*neděľi	*neděľę̇
Accusative	*neděľǫ	*neděľi	*neděľę̇
Genitive	*neděľę̇	*neděľu	*neděľь
Locative	*neděľi	*neděľu	neděľasъ, neděľaxъ^*
Dative	*neděľi	*neděľama	*neděľamъ
Instrumental	neděľejǫ, neděľǫ^**	*neděľama	*neděľami
Vocative	*neděľe	*neděľi	*neděľę̇

^* -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: недѣлꙗ (nedělja)
  - Belarusian: нядзе́ля (njadzjélja)
  - Russian: неде́ля (nedélja, “week”)
  - Rusyn: недї́ля (nedjílja)
  - Ukrainian: неді́ля (nedílja)
  - → Estonian: nädal (“week”)
  - → Latgalian: nedeļa (“week”)
  - → Latvian: nedēļa (“week”)
  - → Livonian: nädīļ (“week”)
  - → Skolt Sami: neäʹttel (“week”)
  - → Tuvan: неделя (nädälya, “week”)
  - → Yakut: нэдиэлэ (nediele, “week”)

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: недѣлꙗ (nedělja)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱀⰵⰴⱑⰾⱑ (nedělě)
- Bulgarian: неделя (nedelja)
- Macedonian: недела (nedela)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: нѐдеља, нѐдјеља, нѐђеља
  
  Latin: nèdelja, nèdjelja, nèđelja
- Slovene: nedẹ́lja (tonal orthography)

West Slavic:
- Czech: neděle
- Kashubian: niedzela
- Polish: niedziela
- Silesian: ńydźela
- Slovak: nedeľa
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: njeźela
  - Upper Sorbian: njedźela

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