срьдоболꙗ

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

• сръдоболꙗ (srŭdobolja)

Etymology

Zbigniew Gołąb reconstructed Proto-Slavic *srьdobořa, from *sьrdьce (“heart”) + *-bořa from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Alternatively, the second part is derived from Bulgar, see болꙗринъ (boljarinŭ).

Compare Russian сердобо́лие (serdobólije), сердобо́льность (serdobólʹnostʹ), Ukrainian сердобо́льний (serdobólʹnyj), Bulgarian сърдобо́л (sǎrdoból), сърдобо́лен (sǎrdobólen).

Noun

срьдоболꙗ • (srĭdobolja) f

1. (collective) relatives

Declension

Declension of срьдоболꙗ (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	срьдоболꙗ srĭdobolja	— —	— —
genitive	срьдоболѩ srĭdobolję	— —	— —
dative	срьдоболи srĭdoboli	— —	— —
accusative	срьдоболѭ srĭdoboljǫ	— —	— —
instrumental	срьдоболеѭ srĭdobolejǫ	— —	— —
locative	срьдоболи srĭdoboli	— —	— —
vocative	срьдоболе srĭdobole	— —	— —

References

• “срьдоболꙗ”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025
• Janyšková, Ilona, editor (2008), “srъdobolja”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 14 (sice – sгъdobolja), Prague: Academia, →ISBN, page 870
• Старославянский словарь (по рукописям X-XI веков), Русский язык, Москва 1994