Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polъdьne

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

Alternative Forms

• *polъdьnь (East Slavic)

Etymology

By surface analysis, *polъ- (“half”) +‎ *dьne, a case form of *dьnь.

Noun

*polъdьne n

1. midday

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: пладьне (pladĭne)
    • Bulgarian: пла́дне (pládne)
    • Macedonian: пладне (pladne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по́дне

    Latin script: pódne

  • Slovene: pȏłdne (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: poledne
    • Czech: poledne
      • → Silesian: połednie
  • Old Polish: południe
    • Polish: południe, połnie, połdnie (Near Masovian)
  • Old Slovak: *poladnie, poledne, poledno, polednia, polednie, polodne, polodno, poludnia, poludnie
    • Pannonian Rusyn: поладнє (poladnje)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pol(u)dnjo

Further reading

• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пладне”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 291