Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medъ

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.

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *médus, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

*mȅdъ m^[1][2][3]

1. honey
2. mead

• *medvě̀dь m (“bear”), *medvě̀dica f (“she-bear”)
• *medunъ (“lone bear”)
  • *medunika, *medunica (“type of plant”)
• *medyni (“sweetheart”)
• *medovъ (“of honey”)
  • *medovina (“honey extract”)
  • *medovъka (“sweet fruit, product”)
• *medьnъ, *medvьnъ (“honey's”)
  • *medьnikъ (“honey product”)
• *medvěnъ (“honey's”)
  • *medvěnъka (“type of plant”)
• *medьcь (diminutive)
• *medъkъ (“honey product”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: медъ (medŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: медъ (med), мѣдъ (měd), мюдъ (mjud)
      • Belarusian: мёд (mjod); мед (mjed), мэд (med), мід (mid), мідь (midʹ) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: мюд (mjud), мед (med)
      • Ukrainian: мед (med); мід (mid) (dialectal)
    • Russian: мёд (mjod)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: медъ (medŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰿⰵⰴⱏ (medŭ)

  • Bulgarian: мед (med); мяд (mjad) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: мед (med)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме̑д

    Latin script: mȇd

  • Slovene: mẹ̑d (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: med
    • Czech: med
  • Kashubian: miód
  • Polabian: med
  • Old Polish: miód
    • Polish: miód
    • → Old Ruthenian: мїодъ (mjod), модъ (mod) (dialectal)
  • Slovak: med
  • Slovincian: mjód
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mjod
      • →? Upper Sorbian: mjód
    • Upper Sorbian: měd

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: mied

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