Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dьnьsь

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 *dьnь (“day”) +‎ *sь (“this”).

Adverb

*dьnьsь

1. today

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дьньсь (dĭnĭsĭ), денесь (denesĭ)
    • Russian: (obsolete) днесь (dnesʹ)
    • Ukrainian: (obsolete) днесь (dnesʹ)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: днесь (dnesʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: дьньсь (dĭnĭsĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰴⱐⱀⱐⱄⱐ (dĭnĭsĭ)

  • Bulgarian: днес (dnes), де́нес (dénes) (dialectal), дънъс (dǎnǎs) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: денес (denes)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: данас

    Latin script: dànas

    Chakavian danȁs

  • Slovene: dánes (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dnes, dens
    • Czech: dnes
  • Old Polish: dzińsia, dzisia
    • Polish: dzisiaj, dzisia, dzisiaś (Middle Polish)
    • Silesian: dzisioj, dzisio (Northern Silesian), dzisiej
  • Old Slovak: dnes
    • Pannonian Rusyn: днєш (dnješ) (obsolete)
    • Slovak: dnes
  • Polabian: dans
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: dzys, dzysô
    • Slovincian: dzys
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: źinsa
    • Upper Sorbian: dźens, dźensa

Related terms

• *dьnьsьka (*dьnьsь +‎ *-ka (“pronomial suffix for manner/amount”))
  • Bulgarian: днеска (dneska) (colloquial), дънъска (dǎnǎska) (dialectal)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: днеська (dnesʹka)
  • Macedonian: денеска (deneska) (colloquial)
  • Czech: dneska
  • Old Slovak: neska, dneska
    • Pannonian Rusyn: нєшка (nješka), (obsolete) днєшка (dnješka)
• *sego dьne (genitive of *sь dьnь)
  • Belarusian: сяго́ння (sjahónnja), сёння (sjónnja)
  • Russian: сего́дня (sevódnja)
  • Ukrainian: сього́дні (sʹohódni)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “днесь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dьnьsь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 215