Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grudьnъ

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 1

From *gruda +‎ *-ьnъ.

Noun

*grudьnъ m

1. Alternative reconstruction of *grudьňь (“December; November”)

Adjective

*grudьnъ

1. uneven, covered with (frozen) hummocks, heaped

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: грудьнъ (grudĭnŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: грудный (hrudnyj)
      • Belarusian: гру́дны (hrúdny)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: грудный (hrudnŷj)
      • Ukrainian: грудни́й (hrudnýj) (dialectal)
    • Russian: гру́дный (grúdnyj), грудно́й (grudnój) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Russian: гру́день (grúdenʹ), гру́ден (grúden) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: Гру̀дан

    Latin script: Grùdan

  • Slovene: grúdən (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: hrudný
    • Czech: hrudný
  • ⇒ Polish: grudno
  • Slovak: hrudný

Etymology 2

From *gruditi +‎ *-ьnъ.

Adjective

*grudьnъ

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Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *грудьнъ (*grudĭnŭ)
    • Russian: гру́дный (grúdnyj, “pitiable; cute, tender”) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: grudny (“scary, disgusting, vile”) (dialectal, obsolete)

Further reading

• Anikin, A. E. (2018) “гру́день”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 12 (грак – дбать), Moscow: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 142