адъ

See also: ꙗдъ

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Noun

адъ • (adŭ) m

1. hell, Hades, Sheol, the abode of the dead before the Last Judgement
   • Ретъко, editor (1025±50?), Codex Suprasliensis‎^[1] (in Old Church Slavonic), page (leaf) 224.5, line 7:

     богъ въ малѣ о̑усьпе · и҅ съпꙙштꙙѧ о҅тъ вѣка о҅тъ а҅да въскрѣси ·

     bogŭ vŭ malě ôusĭpe · hi sŭpęštęję hotŭ věka hotŭ hada vŭskrěsi ·

     For a short time God fell asleep, and awoke out of Hell those who were sleeping from of old.

2. (less commonly) hell, Gehenna, the abode of the damned after judgement

Descendants

• Serbo-Croatian: ад
• Bulgarian: ад (ad)
• → Old East Slavic: адъ (adŭ)
  • Russian: ад (ad), адъ (ad) — pre-1918 spelling
    • → Ingrian: aada, vaadu
    • → Kildin Sami: адт (adt)
• → Romanian: iad

Further reading

• “адъ”, in GORAZD [Old Church Slavonic Digital Hub], http://gorazd.org, 2016—2026

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic адъ (adŭ), from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑdʊ/→/ˈadʊ/→/ˈad/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈɑdʊ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈadʊ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈad/

• Hyphenation: адъ

Noun

адъ (adŭ) m

1. hell

Declension

Declension of адъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	адъ adŭ	ада ada	ади adi
genitive	ада ada	аду adu	адъ adŭ
dative	аду adu	адома adoma	адомъ adomŭ
accusative	адъ adŭ	ада ada	адꙑ ady
instrumental	адъмь adŭmĭ	адома adoma	адꙑ ady
locative	адѣ adě	аду adu	адѣхъ aděxŭ
vocative	аде ade	ада ada	ади adi

Descendants

• Russian: ад (ad), адъ (ad) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → Ingrian: aada, vaadu
  • → Kildin Sami: адт (adt)

References

• Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2019), “Drevnerusskoje udarenije: Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ.”, in Languages of Slavic Culture‎^[2] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 537: “адъ ― ad”