Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/smordъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *smarˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd-. Cognate with Latvian smards, Lithuanian smardas, Ukrainian сморід (smorid), Latin merda (“dung, excrement, shit”).

*smȏrdъ m

1. stench

• *smьrdě̀ti

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: смородъ (smorodŭ)
    • Belarusian: смо́рад (smórad), смуро́д (smuród)
    • Russian: смо́род (smórod) (obsolete)
    • Ukrainian: смо́рід (smórid)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: смрадъ (smradŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⰿⱃⰰⰴⱏ (smradŭ)

    • → Russian: смра́д (smrád)
  • Bulgarian: смрад (smrad)
  • Macedonian: смрдеа (smrdea), смрад (smrad)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: смра̑д

    Latin script: smrȃd

  • Slovene: smrȃd (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: smrad
    • Czech: smrad
  • Polabian: smord
  • Old Polish: smród
    • Polish: smród
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: smard
  • Old Slovak:
    • Pannonian Rusyn: смрод (smrod)
    • Slovak: smrad
  • Sorbian:

    Upper Sorbian: smród

    Lower Sorbian: smrod

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “смо́род”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*smordъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 456