Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/listopadъ

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

By surface analysis, *listъ +‎ *-o- +‎ *padъ.

Noun

*listopadъ m

1. leaffall
2. name of the autumn season (autumn months)

Declension

Declension of *listopadъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*listopadъ	*listopada	*listopadi
genitive	*listopada	*listopadu	*listopadъ
dative	*listopadu	*listopadoma	*listopadomъ
accusative	*listopadъ	*listopada	*listopady
instrumental	*listopadъmь, *listopadomь*	*listopadoma	*listopady
locative	*listopadě	*listopadu	*listopaděxъ
vocative	*listopade	*listopada	*listopadi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: листопадъ (listopadŭ, “October”)
    • Old Ruthenian: листопадъ (listopad, “November”)
      • Belarusian: лістапа́д (listapád, “November”)
      • Ukrainian: листопа́д (lystopád, “November; leaffall time”)
    • Russian: листопа́д (listopád, “leaffall in autumn; autumn time”); листопа́дь (listopádʹ, “autumn”) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰾⰻⱄⱅⱁⱂⰰⰴⱏ (listopadŭ, “October”)

    Old Cyrillic script: листопадъ (listopadŭ, “October”)

    • Bulgarian: листопа́д (listopád, “leaffall in autumn; November”); листопа́т (listopát, “November”) (dialectal, archaic)
    • Macedonian: листопад (listopad, “leaffall time”)
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: listopad (“October”)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ли̏стопа̄д (“October; pile of fallen leaves; leaffall time”)

      Latin script: lȉstopād (“October; pile of fallen leaves; leaffall time”)

  • Slovene: listopàd (“leaffall; November; October”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: *listopad
    • Czech: listopad (“leaffall; November”); listopád (“leaffall”) (dialectal)
  • Old Polish: listopad (“November; October”)
    • Polish: listopad
    • Silesian: listopad
  • Old Slovak: listopad (“autumn month name”)
    • Slovak: listopad (“November; leaffall in autumn”) (archaic, bookish)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: listopad (“leaffall”)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) *berzьňь (*berzozolъ), *květьňь, *travьňь, *čьrvьňь, *lipьňь, *sьrpьňь, *versьňь, *řujьnъ, *listopadъ, *grudьňь, *prosinьcь, *sěčьňь, ^{(Category: sla-pro:Months)}