Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/serda

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-Balto-Slavic *śerd-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- (“heart”). Cognate with Lithuanian šerdi̇̀s (“core, kernel, pith”).^[1] For the sense "middle of the week", compare German Mittwoch.

Noun

*serdà f^[1]

middle
Wednesday (middle of week)

Declension

Declension of *serdà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*serdà	*sȇrdě	*sȇrdy
genitive	*serdý	*serdù	*sẽrdъ
dative	*serdě̀	*serdàma	*serdàmъ
accusative	*sȇrdǫ	*sȇrdě	*sȇrdy
instrumental	*serdojǫ́	*serdàma	*serdàmi
locative	*sȇrdě	*serdù	serdàsъ, serdàxъ^*
vocative	*serdo	*sȇrdě	*sȇrdy

^* -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.

Derived terms

*serdъkъ (“middle, center”) (noun)
- *oserdъkъ (“middle, center”)
- *serdъkovъ (“middle, center”) (adjective)
*serdьňь (“middle, central”)

Related terms

*sьrdьce (“heart”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: середа (sereda)
  - Old Ruthenian: середа́ (seredá)
    - Belarusian: серада́ (sjeradá)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: се́реда (séreda)
    - Ukrainian: середа́ (seredá)
  - Russian: середа́ (seredá) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: срѣда (srěda)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱄⱃⱑⰴⰰ (srěda)
  - → Russian: среда́ (sredá) (see there for further descendants)
- Bulgarian: сря́да (srjáda), среда́ (sredá)
- Macedonian: среда (sreda)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: сре́да, срије́да
  
  Latin: sréda, srijéda
- Slovene: srẹ̑da (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: střěda
  - Czech: středa
- Polabian: sredă
- Old Polish: śrzoda, środa, jśroda
  - Polish: środa
  - Silesian: strzoda
- Old Slovak: streda, sreda
  - Pannonian Rusyn: стреда (streda)
  - Slovak: streda
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: strzoda
  - Slovincian: strzôda
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: srjoda
  - Upper Sorbian: srjeda

Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: szerda

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*serdà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444

[EDSIL-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*serdà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444

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