Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/negodějь

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 *ne +‎ *goděti +‎ *-jь,

Noun

*negodějь m

1. scoundrel, villain

Inflection

Declension of *negodějь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*negodějь	*negoděja	*negoději
genitive	*negoděja	*negoděju	*negodějь
dative	*negoděju	*negodějema	*negodějemъ
accusative	*negodějь	*negoděja	*negoděję̇
instrumental	*negodějьmь, *negodějemь*	*negodějema	*negoději
locative	*negoději	*negoděju	*negodějixъ
vocative	*negoděju	*negoděja	*negoději

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *негодѣи (*negoděi)
    • Old Ruthenian: негодꙗ́й (nehodjáj)
      • Belarusian: негадзя́й (njehadzjáj), негодзя́й (njehodzjáj) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: негодя́й (nehodjáj)
    • Middle Russian: негодꙗ́й (negodjáj)
      • Russian: негодя́й (negodjáj)
        • → Bulgarian: негодя́й (negodjáj)
        • → Polish: niegodaj (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Czech: Nehodiv (“village in Bohemia”) (shortened form of earlier *Nehodejevo)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*negodějь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 128