съмьрть

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Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъmьrtь. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic съмрьть (sŭmrĭtĭ) and Old Polish śmierć.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʊˈmɪrtɪ//sʊˈmʲɪrtʲɪ//ˈsmʲɛrtʲ/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /sʊˈmɪrtɪ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /sʊˈmʲɪrtʲɪ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈsmʲɛrtʲ/

  • Hyphenation: съ‧мьр‧ть

Noun

съмьрть (sŭmĭrtĭf

  1. death

Declension

Descendants

  • Belarusian: смерць (smjercʹ)
  • Russian: смерть (smertʹ)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: смерть (smertʹ)
  • Ukrainian: смерть (smertʹ)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “съмьрть”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 760
  • Krysko, V. B., editor (2019), “съмьрть”, in Словарь древнерусского языка (XI–XIV вв.) [Dictionary of the Old Russian Language (11ᵗʰ–14ᵗʰ cc.)] (in Russian), volume 12 (соу – съотъходьнъ), Moscow: Azbukovnik, →ISBN, page 568