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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *tьma (“dark”) + *-ьnъ. Compare Irish temen (“dark”).
Adjective
*tьmь̀nъ or *tь̏mьnъ
- dark
Declension
Indefinite declension of *tьmьnъ (hard)
Definite declension of *tьmьnъ (hard)
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: тьмьнъ (tĭmĭnŭ)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тёмный”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тьма”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 276
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*tьmьnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 505: “adj. o (b/c) ‘dark’”