Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dada

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 nursery language. Reduplication of *da, possibly the result of voicing *ta, from *tàta (“father”). Compare *màma (“mother”), *bàba (“grandmother”) and *tetà (“aunt”).

Apparently, we should abandon Sobolevsky's etymology, according to which Old East Slavic дꙗ́дꙗ (djádja, “uncle”), дѧ́дѧ (dę́dę), from *дѣ́дѧ (*dě́dę) < дѣ́дъ (dě́dŭ) < Proto-Slavic *dě̀dъ (“grandfather”).

Noun

*dàda m

1. (childish) senior relative in the family (father, uncle, older woman, etc.)

Derived terms

adjectives

• *dàdinъ

 

nouns

• *dàdьka m (diminutive)

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дꙗ́дꙗ (djádja, “uncle; prince's tutor”) (with expressive palatalization)
    • Old Ruthenian: дꙗ́дꙗ (djádja, “uncle”)
      • Belarusian: дзя́дзя (dzjádzja, “uncle; older man”) (childish)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”)
      • Ukrainian: дя́дя (djádja, “uncle; older man”); дя́дьо (djádʹo, “father”) (dialectal)
        • → Polish: dziadzia, dziadzio (“uncle”) (dialectal)
      • → Lithuanian: dė̃dė (“uncle”)
    • Russian: дя́дя (djádja); де́дя (dédja), дядь (djadʹ, “uncle; older man”) (dialectal) (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Novgorodian: дꙗ́дꙗ (djádja)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: да́да f (dáda, “older sister”), деда (deda), до́да (dóda, “nanny”) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: дада f (dada, “older sister”); дода (doda) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: да̏да (“older sister”), да̂до (“dad”), до́да f (“mom”), да̄де̏ (dialectal)

    Latin script: dȁda (“older sister”), dâdo (“dad”), dóda f (“mom”), dādȅ (dialectal)

• West Slavic:
  • Polish: dåda (“grandmother; grandfather”), dωda (dialectal)
  • Slovak: dada f (“nanny, wet nurse”) (obsolete); ďad, ďaď, ďaďo (“elder, leader”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: dowda, dou̯da (“grandma”) (dialectal)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: džadža (“father's brother, uncle”)