ꙗдъ

See also: адъ and ꙗдь

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ědъ, most likely from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-u-, an extension of Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

Noun

ꙗдъ • (jadŭ) m

1. poison
   • from the Homily against the Bogumils, 1194-1198:

     тако и еретици покрꙑваѭтъ лицемѣрьнꙑимь съмирениѥмь и постомь ꙗдъ свои

     tako i eretici pokryvajǫtŭ liceměrĭnyimĭ sŭmirenijemĭ i postomĭ jadŭ svoi

     so heretics cloak their poison under hypocritical humility and fasts

Declension

Declension of ꙗдъ (o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ꙗдъ jadŭ	ꙗда jada	ꙗди jadi
genitive	ꙗда jada	ꙗдоу jadu	ꙗдъ jadŭ
dative	ꙗдоу jadu	ꙗдома jadoma	ꙗдомъ jadomŭ
accusative	ꙗдъ jadŭ	ꙗда jada	ꙗдꙑ jady
instrumental	ꙗдомъ jadomŭ	ꙗдома jadoma	ꙗдꙑ jady
locative	ꙗдѣ jadě	ꙗдоу jadu	ꙗдѣхъ jaděxŭ
vocative	ꙗде jade	ꙗда jada	ꙗди jadi

Descendants

• Russian: яд (jad)
• Macedonian: јад (jad)
• Serbo-Croatian: јад, Serbo-Croatian: јед

Further reading

• Nikolić, Svetozar (1989) Staroslovenski jezik: Pravopis, glasovi, oblici, Beograd
• “ꙗдъ”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2024