Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nyně

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 *nūnai ~ *nunai, from Proto-Indo-European *nu.

Adverb

*nyně ~ *nъně

1. now

Descendants

From *nyně:

• East Slavic:
  • Carpathian Rusyn: ны́нї (nŷ́nji)
  • Russian: ны́не (nýne)
  • Ukrainian: ни́ні (nýni)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: нꙑнѣ (nyně), нꙑнꙗ (nynja)
    • Bulgarian: ни́не (níne) (archaic, poetic)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: nynie
    • Czech: nyní
  • Old Polish: nynie, ninie
    • Polish: ninie, ninia, nynie, nynia (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Polish: niniejszy (literary)

From *nъně:

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: но́не (nóne)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: нънѣ (nŭně)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: nenie

Further reading

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