Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nenavistь

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 *nenaviděti + *-tь, from *ne (“not”) + *naviděti, from *na (“on(to), in(to)”) + *viděti (“to see”).

Noun

*nenavistь f

1. hate

Declension

Declension of *nenavistь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nenavistь	*nenavisti	*nenavisti
genitive	*nenavisti	*nenavistьju, *nenavisťu*	*nenavistьjь, *nenavisti*
dative	*nenavisti	*nenavistьma	*nenavistьmъ
accusative	*nenavistь	*nenavisti	*nenavisti
instrumental	*nenavistьjǫ, *nenavisťǫ*	*nenavistьma	*nenavistьmi
locative	*nenavisti	*nenavistьju, *nenavisťu*	*nenavistьxъ
vocative	*nenavisti	*nenavisti	*nenavisti

^* 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: нянавісць (njanaviscʹ)
  • Russian: ненависть (nenavistʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ненависть (nenavystʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ненависть (nenavistĭ)
  • Bulgarian: ненавист (nenavist)
  • Macedonian: ненавист (nenavist)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ненавист (archaic)

    Latin script: nenavist (archaic)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: nenávist
  • Polish: nienawiść
  • Slovak: nenávisť

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*nenavistь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 174