Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/serda

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *śerd-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-. Cognate with Lithuanian šerdìs (“core, kernel, pith”). For the sense "middle of the week", compare German Mittwoch.

Noun

*serdà f

1. middle
2. Wednesday (middle of week)

Declension

Declension of *serdà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*serdà	*sȇrdě	*sȇrdy
genitive	*serdý	*serdù	*sẽrdъ
dative	*serdě̀	*serdàma	*serdàmъ
accusative	*sȇrdǫ	*sȇrdě	*sȇrdy
instrumental	*serdojǫ́	*serdàma	*serdàmi
locative	*sȇrdě	*serdù	*serdàsъ, *serdàxъ*
vocative	*serdo	*sȇrdě	*sȇrdy

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.

Derived terms

• *serdъkъ (“middle, center”) (noun)
  • *oserdъkъ (“middle, center”)
  • *serdъkovъ (“middle, center”) (adjective)
• *serdьňь (“middle, central”)

Related terms

• *sьrdьce (“heart”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: середа (sereda)
    • Old Ruthenian: середа́ (seredá)
      • Belarusian: серада́ (sjeradá)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: се́реда (séreda)
      • Ukrainian: середа́ (seredá)
    • Russian: середа́ (seredá) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: срѣда (srěda)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⱃⱑⰴⰰ (srěda)

    • → Russian: среда́ (sredá) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bulgarian: сря́да (srjáda), среда́ (sredá)
  • Macedonian: среда (sreda)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сре́да, срије́да

    Latin: sréda, srijéda

  • Slovene: srẹ̑da (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: střěda
    • Czech: středa
  • Kashubian: strzoda
  • Polabian: sredă
  • Old Polish: śrzoda, środa, jśroda
    • Masurian: szróda
    • Polish: środa
    • Silesian: strzoda
  • Slovak: streda
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: srjoda
    • Upper Sorbian: srjeda

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: szerda

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “середа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress