Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medъ

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 *medús, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Noun

*mȅdъ m

1. honey
2. mead

Inflection

Declension of *mȅdъ (u-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mȅdъ	*mȅdy	*mȅdove
genitive	*mȅdu	*medovù	*medòvъ
dative	*mȅdovi	*medъmà	*mȅdъmъ
accusative	*mȅdъ	*mȅdy	*mȅdy
instrumental	*mȅdъmь	*medъmà	*medъmì
locative	*medú	*medovù	*mȅdъxъ
vocative	*medu	*mȅdy	*mȅdove

Derived terms

• *medvědь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: мёд (mjod)
  • Russian: мёд (mjod)
  • Ukrainian: мед (med)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: медъ (medŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰿⰵⰴⱏ (medŭ)

  • Bulgarian: мед (med)
  • Macedonian: мед (med)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме̑д

    Latin script: mȇd

  • Slovene: mẹ̑d (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: med
  • Kashubian: miód
  • Polish: miód
  • Slovak: med
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mjod
    • Upper Sorbian: měd
• → Romanian: mied

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мед”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress