Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dьnьsь

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 edit

Etymology edit

From *dьnь (“day”) +‎ *sь (“this”).

Adverb edit

*dьnьsь^[1]

today

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: дьньсь (dĭnĭsĭ), денесь (denesĭ)
  - Russian: (obsolete) днесь (dnesʹ)
  - Ukrainian: (obsolete) днесь (dnesʹ)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: днесь (dnesʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: дьньсь (dĭnĭsĭ)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰴⱐⱀⱐⱄⱐ (dĭnĭsĭ)
- Bulgarian: днес (dnes), де́нес (dénes) (dialectal), дънъс (dǎnǎs) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: денес (denes)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: данас
  
  Latin script: dànas
  
  Chakavian danȁs
- Slovene: dánes (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: dzys, dzysô
- Old Czech: dnes, dens
  - Czech: dnes
- Old Polish: dzińsia, dzisia
  - Masurian: dżisziáj, dżisziá
  - Polish: dzisiaj, dzisia, dzisiaś
  - Silesian: dzisioj, dzisio; dzisiej
- Polabian: dans
- Slovak: dnes
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: źinsa
  - Upper Sorbian: dźens, dźensa

Related terms edit

*dьnьsьka (*dьnьsь +‎ *-ka (“pronomial suffix for manner/amount”))
- Bulgarian: днеска (dneska) (colloquial), дънъска (dǎnǎska) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: денеска (deneska) (colloquial)
- Czech: dneska
*sego dьne (genitive of *sь dьnь)
- Belarusian: сяго́ння (sjahónnja), сёння (sjónnja)
- Russian: сего́дня (sevódnja)
- Ukrainian: сього́дні (sʹohódni)

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dьnьsь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 135: “adv. ‘today’”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dьnьsь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 135: “adv. ‘today’”

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