Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sedmica

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 *sedmь (“7”) +‎ *-ica.

Compare Upper Sorbian sedmka, sedymka (“7-pip card”),^[1] Lower Sorbian sedymka (“7”),^[2] Belarusian сёмка (sjómka, “7-pip card”),^[3] семъ-дзёнъ (“7-days-old animal”),^[4] Ukrainian сі́мка (símka, “7; 7-pip card”)^[5] and Russian семи́на (semína, “week”).^[6]

Meaning "week" is calque of Ancient Greek ἑβδομάς (hebdomás, “7; 7 days, week; 7 years”) or Vulgar Latin septimāna (“week”). See also Latin hebdomas, Tajik ҳафта (hafta, “week”), Sanskrit सप्ताह (saptāha, “7 days, week”), Hungarian hét (“7; week”).

Per Melnychuk, Old East Slavic седмица (sedmica) is borrowing from Church Slavonic.^[7]

Noun

*sedmica f

septuple (set or order of seven)

Inflection

Declension of *sedmica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sedmica	*sedmici	*sedmicę̇
genitive	*sedmicę̇	*sedmicu	*sedmicь
dative	*sedmici	*sedmicama	*sedmicamъ
accusative	*sedmicǫ	*sedmici	*sedmicę̇
instrumental	sedmicejǫ, sedmicǫ^**	*sedmicama	*sedmicami
locative	*sedmici	*sedmicu	sedmicasъ, sedmicaxъ^*
vocative	*sedmice	*sedmici	*sedmicę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: седмица (sedmica, “7; 7 days, week; day 7, Saturday”)^[8],^[9] семица (semica, “7”)^[10]^[11]
  - Old Ruthenian: седми́ца (sedmíca, “week; seven times”)
    - Ukrainian: седми́ця (sedmýcja, “week”),^[12] семиця (semycja, “week; 7-limit tuning?”)^[13]
  - Russian: седми́ца (sedmíca, “7 days, week”), седьми́ца (sedʹmíca)
South Slavic:
- Church Slavonic седмица (sedmica)^[14]
- Bulgarian: седми́ца (sedmíca, “septuple”), се́дмица (sédmica, “week”)
- Macedonian: седмица (sedmica)
- Serbo-Croatian::
  Cyrillic script: сѐдмица
  
  Latin script: sèdmica
- Slovene: sedmica^[15]^[16]
West Slavic:
- Czech: sedmice^[17]^[18]

References

^ Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), “sedmka, sedymka”, in Łužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), Budyšin: Maćica Serbska, page 629
^ Muka, Arnošt (1928) “sedymka”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), volume 2, Prague: ČAVU, page 396; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
^ I. I. Nosovič, editor (1870), “сёмка”, in Slovarʹ bělorusskago narěčija‎^[2] (in Russian), volumes 1–2, Saint Petersburg: The Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 577
^ I. I. Nosovič, editor (1870), “семъ-дзёнъ”, in Slovarʹ bělorusskago narěčija‎^[3] (in Russian), volumes 1–2, Saint Petersburg: The Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 577
^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “сім”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
^ Сороколетов, Ф. П., editor (2003), “семи́на”, in Slovarʹ russkix narodnyx govorov [Dictionary of Russian Dialects] (in Russian), volume 37, Saint Petersburg: Nauka, page 156
^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “седми́ця”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
^ Bogatova, G. A., editor (2000), “седмица”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 24 (се – скорый), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 27
^ Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “седмица”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[4] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 321
^ Bogatova, G. A., editor (2000), “семица”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 24 (се – скорый), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 56
^ Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “семица”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[5] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 332
^ Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1924), “седми́ця”, in Словарь української мови [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language]‎^[6] (in Russian), volumes 2: О – Я, Berlin: Ukrainske Slowo, page 622
^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “сім”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
^ Franz Miklosich (1862–1865) “седмица”, in Lexicon Palaeoslovenico-Graeco-Latinum emendatum auctum, Vienna: Guilelmus Braumueller, page 835
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “sẹ́dem”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
^ Maks Pleteršnik, editor (1895), “sedmíca”, in Slovensko-nemški slovar (in Slovene), volume 2, Ljubljana: Knezoškofijstvo, page 464
^ František Št. Kott (1882) “sedmice”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: František Šimáček, page 292
^ František Št. Kott (1893) “sedmice”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: František Šimáček, page 662