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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pędь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Indo-European *(s)pénd-i-s, from *(s)pend- (“to stretch”).

Noun

*pę̑dь f[1]

  1. span

Inflection
Declension of *pę̑dь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *pę̑dь *pę̑di *pę̑di
genitive *pędí *pędьjù, *pęďu* *pędь̀jь
dative *pę̑di *pędьmà *pę̑dьmъ
accusative *pę̑dь *pę̑di *pę̑di
instrumental *pędьjǫ́ *pędьmà *pędьmì
locative *pędí *pędьjù, *pęďu* *pę̑dьxъ
vocative *pędi *pę̑di *pę̑di
* 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:
    • Belarusian: пядзя (pjadzja)
    • Russian: пядь (pjadʹ)
    • Ukrainian: п'ядь (pʺjadʹ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: пѧдь (pędĭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⱂⱔⰴⱐ (pędĭ)
    • Bulgarian: педя (pedja), пенда (penda) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пе̑даљ
      Latin script: pȇdalj
    • Slovene: pẹ̑d
  • West Slavic:

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pę̑dь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 398
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