Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stydъ

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.

The meaning was originally "that which makes something freeze, stiffen, contract, cold," see *studъ (“cold, shame”).

*stydъ m

1. shame

• *studiti (“to cool”)
• *studъ (“cold, shame”)
• *studenъ (“cold”)
• *stydnǫti (“to become cold”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *стꙑдъ (*stydŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: стыдъ (styd)
      • Belarusian: стыд (styd) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: стыд (stŷd)
      • Ukrainian: стид (styd)
    • Middle Russian: стыдъ (styd) (16-18ᵗʰ c.)
      • Russian: стыд (styd)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: стꙑдъ (stydŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⱅⱏⰺⰴⱏ (stydŭ)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сти̑д

    Latin script: stȋd

    • Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: stȋd
  • Slovene: stȋd (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: styd
  • Kashubian: wstid; stid (rare)
  • Polish: wstyd
    • → Old Ruthenian: встыдъ (vstyd), усты́дъ (ustýd)
      • Ukrainian: встид (vstyd), усти́д (ustýd) (dialectal)

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 473
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сты́д”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress