Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/borda

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 *bardā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.

Noun

*bordà f

1. beard
2. chin

Inflection

Declension of *bordà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bordà	*bȏrdě	*bȏrdy
genitive	*bordý	*bordù	*bõrdъ
dative	*bordě̀	*bordàma	*bordàmъ
accusative	*bȏrdǫ	*bȏrdě	*bȏrdy
instrumental	*bordojǫ́	*bordàma	*bordàmi
locative	*bȏrdě	*bordù	*bordàsъ, *bordàxъ*
vocative	*bordo	*bȏrdě	*bȏrdy

^* -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

• *bezbordъ
• *bordatъ
• *bordavъka
• *bordačь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: борода (boroda)
    • Old Ruthenian: борода́ (borodá)
      • Middle Belarusian: борода (boroda)
        • Belarusian: барада́ (baradá)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: бо́рода (bóroda)
      • Ukrainian: борода́ (borodá)
    • Russian: борода́ (borodá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: брада (brada)

    Glagolitic script: ⰱⱃⰰⰴⰰ (brada)

    • → Old East Slavic: брада (brada)
      • Russian: брада́ (bradá)
  • Bulgarian: брада́ (bradá)
  • Macedonian: брада (brada)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бра́да, бра̏да

    Latin script: bráda, brȁda

  • Slovene: bráda (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: brada
    • Czech: brada
  • Old Polish:
    • Polish: broda
    • Silesian: broda
  • Polabian: brödă
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: barda, broda
    • Slovincian: brôda
  • Old Slovak: brada, breda
    • Pannonian Rusyn: брада (brada)
    • Slovak: brada
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: broda
    • Upper Sorbian: broda

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “борода”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• ESSJa, vol. 2, page 197: “*borda”