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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polъnoťь

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

Compound of *polъ +‎ *noťь.

Noun

*pólъnoťь f[1]

  1. midnight
  2. north

Inflection
Declension of *pȍlъnoťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *pȍlъnoťь *pȍlъnoťi *pȍlъnoťi
genitive *polъnoťí *polъnoťьjù, *polъnoťu* *polъnoťь̀jь
dative *pȍlъnoťi *polъnoťьmà *pȍlъnoťьmъ
accusative *pȍlъnoťь *pȍlъnoťi *pȍlъnoťi
instrumental *polъnoťьjǫ́ *polъnoťьmà *polъnoťьmì
locative *polъnoťí *polъnoťьjù, *polъnoťu* *pȍlъnoťьxъ
vocative *polъnoťi *pȍlъnoťi *pȍlъnoťi
* 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: полъночь (polŭnočĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: по́вночъ (póvnoč), по́лночъ (pólnoč), по́лночь (pólnočʹ)
        • Belarusian: по́ўнач (póŭnač), по́ўныч (póŭnyč), по́ўноч (póŭnoč), пуовночь (puovnočʹ)
        • Old Ukrainian: пѡ́внѡчъ (pốvnôč), пу́внучъ (púvnuč)
          • Carpathian Rusyn: пӱ́внӱч (pǘvnüč)
          • Ukrainian: пі́вніч (pívnič)
      • Russian: по́лночь (pólnočʹ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: полоунощи (polunošti)
      Glagolitic script: ⱂⱁⰾⱆⱀⱁⱋⰻ (polunošti)
      • → Old Ruthenian: по́лнощъ (pólnošč), по́лнощь (pólnoščʹ)
    • Bulgarian: полуно́щ (polunóšt)
    • Macedonian: полноќ (polnoḱ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: по́ноћ
      Latin script: pónoć
    • Slovene: pȏłnoč (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References
  1. Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2004), “по́ўнач”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 9 (пе-пе-пе – прасна́к), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 307
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