Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čudo

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

Archaic s-stem noun, continuing Proto-Balto-Slavic *kjáudas, from Proto-Indo-European *kéwdos. A possible cognate is Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos).

Noun

*čùdo n

1. miracle, wonder

Inflection

Declension of *čùdo (s-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čùdo	*čùdesi	*čùdesā
genitive	*čùdese	*čùdesu	*čùdesъ
dative	*čùdesi	*čùdesьma	*čùdesьmъ
accusative	*čùdo	*čùdesi	*čùdesā
instrumental	*čùdesьmь	*čùdesьma	*čùdesȳ
locative	*čùdese	*čùdesu	*čùdesьxъ
vocative	*čùdo	*čùdesi	*čùdesā

Alternative forms

• *čùdъ

Derived terms

• *kudo (“paranormal activity”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чудо (čudo)
    • Old Ruthenian: чу́до (čúdo), чю́до (čjúdo)
      • Belarusian: чу́да (čúda) (archaic)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: чу́до (čúdo)
      • Ukrainian: чу́до (čúdo)
    • Russian: чу́до (čúdo)
    • → Karelian: čuudo
    • → Komi-Zyrian: чудеса (ćuďesa)
    • → Udmurt: чудо (ćudo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: чоудо (čudo)

    Glagolitic script: ⱍⱆⰴⱁ (čudo)

    • Church Slavonic: чꙋдо (čudo) (Russian recension)
  • Bulgarian: чу́до (čúdo)
  • Macedonian: чу́до (čúdo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чу̏до; чуде̏со (dialectal)

    Latin script: čȕdo; čudȅso (dialectal)

  • Slovene: čūdo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: cudo, czudo
    • Polish: cudo
  • Slovak: čudo, čudeso, čud
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: cud
    • Slovincian: cúd
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: čwódо

• → Albanian: çudi
• → Hungarian: csoda
• → Romanian: ciudă

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čudo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 128