Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/neděľa
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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 *ne (“not”) + *dělo (“work”) + *-ja. Or from *ne (“not”) + *děliti (“to divide”) + *-ja.
For the meaning, compare:
- Sunday > week: Ojibwe anamaʼe-giizhik, Georgian კვირა (ḳvira), Romani kurko, Navajo damóo, Taos tumį́ku, Karao domingko.
- summer > year: Proto-Slavic *lěto.
Noun
*nedě̀ľa f
Declension
Declension of *nedě̀ľa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *nedě̀ľa | *nedě̀ľi | *nedě̀ľę̇ |
| genitive | *nedě̀ľę̇ | *nedě̀ľu | *nedě̀ľь |
| dative | *nedě̀ľī | *nedě̀ľama | *nedě̀ľāmъ |
| accusative | *nedě̀ľǫ | *nedě̀ľi | *nedě̀ľę̇ |
| instrumental | *nedě̀ľējǫ, *nedě̀ľǭ* | *nedě̀ľama | *nedě̀ľāmī |
| locative | *nedě̀ľī | *nedě̀ľu | *nedě̀ľāsъ |
| vocative | *nedě̀ľe | *nedě̀ľi | *nedě̀ľę̇ |
* 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).
See also
| Days of the week in Proto-Slavic · *dьne nedě̀ľę̇/tajegodьne (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *neděľa | *ponedělъkъ *ponedělьnikъ |
*vъtorъkъ *vъtorьnikъ |
*serda | *četvьrtъkъ | *pętъkъ | *sǫbota |
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: недѣ́лꙗ (nedě́lja)
- Belarusian: нядзе́ля (njadzjélja), niadziela — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)
- →? Lithuanian: nedėlia
- Russian: неде́ля (nedélja, “week”)
- Carpathian Rusyn: недї́ля (nedjílja)
- Ukrainian: неді́ля (nedílja)
- → Estonian: nädal (“week”)
- → Karelian: netäli (“week”), nedäli
- → Kildin Sami: не̄дтӭль (niedt’el’, “week”)
- → Latgalian: nedeļa (“week”)
- → Latvian: nedēļa (“week”)
- → Livonian: nädīļ (“week”)
- → Skolt Sami: neäʹttel (“week”)
- → Tuvan: неделя (nedelya, “week”)
- → Votic: näteli (“week”)
- → Yakut: нэдиэлэ (nediele, “week”)
- Belarusian: нядзе́ля (njadzjélja), niadziela — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)
- Old Novgorodian: недѣлѧ (nedělę)
- Old East Slavic: недѣ́лꙗ (nedě́lja)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Bulgarian: неде́ля (nedélja), недя́ля (nedjálja) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: не́дела (nédela)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: nedẹ́lja (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*neděľa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 115