Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/noťь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Alternative reconstructions

• *noktь, *nokťь (unassimilated form chronologically before the Common Slavic change *kt > ť)

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *noktís, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts

Noun

*nȏťь f (underlying */noktь/)

1. night

Inflection

Declension of *nȏťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*nȏťь	*noťi	*nȍťi
Accusative	*nȏťь	*noťi	*nȍťi
Genitive	*noťí	*noťьju, *noťu*	*noťь̃jь
Locative	*noťí	*noťьju, *noťu*	*nȍťьxъ
Dative	*nȍťi	*noťьma	*nȍťьmъ
Instrumental	*noťьjǫ́	*noťьma	*noťьmì
Vocative	*noťi	*noťi	*nȍťi

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

See also

• *netopyrь
• (times of day) *vermena dьne; *zorja, *(j)utro, *polъdьnь, *popolъdьnь, *večerъ, *sǫmorkъ, *noťь, *polъnoťь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ночь (nočĭ)
    • Belarusian: ноч (noč)
    • Russian: ночь (nočʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ніч (nič)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: нощь (noštĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱀⱁⱋⱐ (noštĭ)

  • Bulgarian: нощ (nošt)
  • Macedonian: ноќ (noḱ)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: но̑ћ

    Roman: nȏć

  • Slovene: nọ̑č (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: noc
  • Kashubian: noc
  • Polabian: nüc
  • Polish: noc
  • Slovak: noc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: nóc
    • Lower Sorbian: noc

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015), “naktis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 327
• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 355
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ночь”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in ru), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress
• Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), “ночь”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in ru), volume 1, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 579
• Trubačev O. N., editor (1999), “*noktь”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in ru), volume 25, Moscow: Nauka, page 175
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “ночь”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in ru), Moscow: Drofa