Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sъnъ

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 an earlier *sъpnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *súpnas, from Proto-Indo-European *supnós.

*sъ̀nъ m

1. sleep, dream

• *bezsъnъ (“sleepless”)
• *nesъnъ (“sleepless”)
• *sъniti (“to dream”)

• *sъpàti (“to sleep”)
• *usъpiti (“to put to sleep”)
• *usъnǫti (“to fall asleep”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сънъ (sŭnŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: сонъ (son)
      • Belarusian: сон (son)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: сон (son)
      • Ukrainian: сон (son)
    • Russian: сон (son)
  • Old Novgorodian: *съне (*sŭne)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: сънъ (sŭnŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⱏⱀⱏ (sŭnŭ)

    • Bulgarian: сън (sǎn)
    • Macedonian: сон (son)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: са̏н

    Latin script: sȁn

  • Slovene: sə̏n (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sen
    • Czech: sen
  • Old Polish: sen
    • Polish: sen
  • Polabian: *sån
  • Old Slovak: sen, son
    • Pannonian Rusyn: сон (son)
    • Slovak: sen
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: són
    • Lower Sorbian: soń

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сон”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress