Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mǫdo

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

Related to Latin mentula (< *mn̥tolā), from Proto-Indo-European *men- "to protrude, to project, to stick out", id est PIE: *mondʰom > *mǫdo.

Noun

*mǫdo n

1. testicle

Alternative forms

• *mǫdь (i-stem)

Declension

Declension of *mǫdo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mǫdo	*mǫdě	*mǫda
genitive	*mǫda	*mǫdu	*mǫdъ
dative	*mǫdu	*mǫdoma	*mǫdomъ
accusative	*mǫdo	*mǫdě	*mǫda
instrumental	*mǫdъmь, *mǫdomь*	*mǫdoma	*mǫdy
locative	*mǫdě	*mǫdu	*mǫděxъ
vocative	*mǫdo	*mǫdě	*mǫda

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: мѫдо (mǫdo)
    • Old Ruthenian: мудо (mudo)
      • Ukrainian: му́до (múdo)
    • Russian: мудо́ (mudó)
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: мѫдо (mǫdo)
    • Bulgarian: мъдо́ (mǎdó) (colloquial)
    • Macedonian: маде (made) (colloquial)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: му́до

    Latin script: múdo

  • Slovene: mọ̄do (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: múdo, múd
    • Czech: moud
  • Old Polish: mądo
    • Polish: mądа
  • Old Slovak: múď
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: mud
    • Upper Sorbian: mudo

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мудо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1994), “*mǫdo/*mǫdь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 20 (*morzatъjь – *mъrsknǫti), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 123
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “мъдо”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 372