Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/radi

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

Possibly a Iranian borrowing; compare Old Persian 𐎼𐎠𐎮𐎡𐎹 (r-a-di-i-y /rādiy/, “on the account of”).

Postposition

*radi [1]

for the sake of

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: зара́дзі (zarádzi)
- Russian: ра́ди (rádi), зара́ди (zarádi)
- Ukrainian: ра́ди (rády), зара́ди (zarády)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: ради (radi), радьма (radĭma)
- Bulgarian: зара́ди (zarádi), пора́ди (porádi)
- Macedonian: за́ради (záradi), по́ради (póradi)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ра̏ди, за̏ради, за̏рад, по̏ради
  
  Latin: rȁdi, zȁradi, zȁrad, pȍradi
- Slovene: zarȃdi, zaràd, rȃdi

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*radi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 432: “postp. ‘for the sake of ’”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*radi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 432: “postp. ‘for the sake of ’”