Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/serdina

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 *serda +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*serdina f

1. midst, middle

Declension

Declension of *serdina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*serdina	*serdině	*serdiny
genitive	*serdiny	*serdinu	*serdinъ
dative	*serdině	*serdinama	*serdinamъ
accusative	*serdinǫ	*serdině	*serdiny
instrumental	*serdinojǫ, *serdinǫ**	*serdinama	*serdinami
locative	*serdině	*serdinu	*serdinasъ, *serdinaxъ*
vocative	*serdino	*serdině	*serdiny

^* -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.
^** 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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: сере́дина (serédina)
    • Belarusian: сярэ́дзіна (sjarédzina), серэ́дзіна (sjerédzina)
    • Ukrainian: сере́дина (serédyna), середи́на (seredýna)
  • Russian: середи́на (seredína)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: [Term?]

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

    • → Russian: среди́на (sredína)
  • Bulgarian: средина (sredina)
  • Macedonian: средина (sredina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: средѝна

    Latin script: sredìna

  • Slovene: sredína (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: srjedźina

Further reading

• Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “сярэ́дзіна”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka