Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/neděľa

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

For the meaning, compare:

• Sunday > week: Ojibwe anamaʼe-giizhik, Georgian კვირა (ḳvira), Romani kurko, Navajo damóo, Taos tumį́ku, Karao domingko.
• summer > year: Proto-Slavic *lěto.

Noun

*nedě̀ľa f

1. Sunday
2. week

Declension

Declension of *nedě̀ľa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nedě̀ľa	*nedě̀ľi	*nedě̀ľę̇
genitive	*nedě̀ľę̇	*nedě̀ľu	*nedě̀ľь
dative	*nedě̀ľī	*nedě̀ľama	*nedě̀ľāmъ
accusative	*nedě̀ľǫ	*nedě̀ľi	*nedě̀ľę̇
instrumental	*nedě̀ľējǫ, *nedě̀ľǭ*	*nedě̀ľama	*nedě̀ľāmī
locative	*nedě̀ľī	*nedě̀ľu	*nedě̀ľāsъ
vocative	*nedě̀ľe	*nedě̀ľi	*nedě̀ľę̇

^* 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).

See also

Days of the week in Proto-Slavic · *dьne nedě̀ľę̇/tajegodьne (layout · text)
*neděľa	*ponedělъkъ *ponedělьnikъ	*vъtorъkъ *vъtorьnikъ	*serda	*četvьrtъkъ	*pętъkъ	*sǫbota

Derived terms

• *poneděľa

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: недѣ́лꙗ (nedě́lja)
    • Belarusian: нядзе́ля (njadzjélja), niadziela
      • →? Lithuanian: nedėlia
    • Russian: неде́ля (nedélja, “week”)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: недї́ля (nedjílja)
    • Ukrainian: неді́ля (nedílja)
    • → Estonian: nädal (“week”)
    • → Karelian: netäli (“week”), nedäli
      • → Kildin Sami: не̄дтӭль (niedt’el’, “week”)
    • → Latgalian: nedeļa (“week”)
    • → Latvian: nedēļa (“week”)
    • → Livonian: nädīļ (“week”)
    • → Skolt Sami: neäʹttel (“week”)
    • → Tuvan: неделя (nedelya, “week”)
    • → Votic: näteli (“week”)
    • → Yakut: нэдиэлэ (nediele, “week”)
  • Old Novgorodian: недѣлѧ (nedělę)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: недѣлꙗ (nedělja)

    Glagolitic script: ⱀⰵⰴⱑⰾⱑ (nedělě)

  • Bulgarian: неде́ля (nedélja), недя́ля (nedjálja) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: не́дела (nédela)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: нѐдеља, нѐдјеља, нѐђеља

    Latin script: nèdelja, nèdjelja, nèđelja

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): nedȉļa
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): nedȅlja
    • Kajkavian (Bednja): nedȅljo
  • Slovene: nedẹ́lja (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: neděle, neděľe
    • Czech: neděle
  • Polabian: nideľă
  • Old Polish: niedziela
    • Masurian: niédżiela
    • Polish: niedziela
    • Silesian: niydziela
  • Slovak: nedeľa
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: niedzela
    • Slovincian: njêdzêla
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: njeźela
    • Upper Sorbian: njedźela

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*neděľa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 115