Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nebesьskъ

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.

From *nebo +‎ *-ьskъ.

*nebesьskъ

1. celestial, heavenly

Only the definite form of the adjective survives in most languages. However, the indefinite form was still present in Old Church Slavonic.

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: небесьскъ (nebesĭskŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: небескїй (nebeskij), небесскїй (nebesskij)
      • Ukrainian: небе́ський (nebésʹkyj)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: небесьскъ (nebesĭskŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱀⰵⰱⰵⱄⱐⱄⰽⱏ (nebesĭskŭ)

    • Russian Church Slavonic: небесьскꙑи (nebesĭskyi)
    • Bulgarian: небе́ски (nebéski) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: небески (nebeski)
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: небески (15ᵗʰ cent.)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: нѐбескӣ

      Latin script: nèbeskī

  • Old Slovene: nebeski
    • Slovene: nebẹ́ški (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: nebeský
    • Czech: nebeský
  • Polabian: nibesťĕ
  • Old Polish: niebieśski, niebiesski, niebieski
    • Polish: niebieski
  • Slovak: nebeský; nebecký, nebeckí (dialectal)
  • Slovincian: ńebˈesḱi, ńebjesći, ńebjìe̯sћï, ńebˈeskï
  • Sorbian:
    • Old Lower Sorbian: ńeb́eski
      • Lower Sorbian: ńebjaski
    • Upper Sorbian: njebjeski

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*nebesьskъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 100