Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polъdьne

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

Alternative forms

*polъdьnь (East Slavic)

Etymology

By surface analysis, *polъ- (“half”) +‎ *dьne, a case form of *dьnь; see *polъ for the prefix.^[1]

Noun

*polъdьne n

midday

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: пладьне (pladĭne)
  - Bulgarian: пла́дне (pládne)
  - Macedonian: пладне (pladne)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: по́дне
  
  Latin script: pódne
- Slovene: pȏłdne (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: poledne, połedne (alternative writing), polodne, pól dne, polydne
  - Czech: poledne
    - → Silesian: połednie
- Old Polish: południe
  - Polish: południe, połnie (Near Masovian, Łowicz), połdnie (Near Masovian)
- Old Slovak: *poladnie, poledne, poledno, polednia, polednie, polodne, polodno, poludnia, poludnie
  - Pannonian Rusyn: поладнє (poladnje)
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: pôłnié
  - Slovincian: pôùnjê
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: pol(u)dnjo

References

^ Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пладне”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 291

[1] Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пладне”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 291

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