Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bodъ

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

Continues Proto-Balto-Slavic *badas from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to prick, to dig”). Cognate with Lithuanian bãdas (“hunger, famine”), Latvian bads (“hunger, famine”) and akin to Old Prussian boadis (“sting”) (i-stem). For the sense of hunger, starvation in East Baltic, compare the dialectal Proto-Slavic *dьrča (“hunger, stomach growling”) from Proto-Slavic *dьrkati (“to pluck, to tug”).

Noun

*bȍdъ m

1. sting, prick
2. point

Inflection

Declension of *bȍdъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bȍdъ	*bȍda	*bȍdi
genitive	*bȍda	*bodù	*bòdъ
dative	*bȍdu	*bodomà	*bodòmъ
accusative	*bȍdъ	*bȍda	*bȍdy
instrumental	*bȍdъmь, *bȍdomь*	*bodomà	*bodý
locative	*bȍdě	*bodù	*bodě̃xъ
vocative	*bode	*bȍda	*bȍdi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *bosti (“to pierce”)
• *badati (“to prick, to stab”)

Derived terms

• *bodъľь (“thorn”) (+ *-ъlъ + *-jь)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бод (bod)
  • Macedonian: бод (bod)
  • Serbo-Croatian: bȏd
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: bod
    • Czech: bod
  • Slovincian: bód
  • Slovak: bod

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bodъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 154
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бод”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 61