Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/badъ

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 *badati, iterative of *bosti. Parallel to Proto-Slavic *bodъ (“sting, stitch”).

Noun

*badъ m

1. puncture, stabbing

Declension

Declension of *badъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*badъ	*bada	*badi
genitive	*bada	*badu	*badъ
dative	*badu	*badoma	*badomъ
accusative	*badъ	*bada	*bady
instrumental	*badъmь, *badomь*	*badoma	*bady
locative	*badě	*badu	*baděxъ
vocative	*bade	*bada	*badi

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

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: бад (bad) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: bȃd (dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*badъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 123
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бад”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 25