Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polъnoťь

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

Compound of *polъ +‎ *noťь.

Noun

*pólъnoťь f

1. midnight
2. north

Inflection

Declension of *pȍlъnoťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pȍlъnoťь	*pȍlъnoťi	*pȍlъnoťi
genitive	*polъnoťí	*polъnoťьjù, *polъnoťu*	*polъnoťь̀jь
dative	*pȍlъnoťi	*polъnoťьmà	*pȍlъnoťьmъ
accusative	*pȍlъnoťь	*pȍlъnoťi	*pȍlъnoťi
instrumental	*polъnoťьjǫ́	*polъnoťьmà	*polъnoťьmì
locative	*polъnoťí	*polъnoťьjù, *polъnoťu*	*pȍlъnoťьxъ
vocative	*polъnoťi	*pȍlъnoťi	*pȍlъnoťi

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: полъночь (polŭnočĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: по́вночъ (póvnoč), по́лночъ (pólnoč), по́лночь (pólnočʹ)
      • Belarusian: по́ўнач (póŭnač), по́ўныч (póŭnyč), по́ўноч (póŭnoč), пуовночь (puovnočʹ)
      • Old Ukrainian: пѡ́внѡчъ (pốvnôč), пу́внучъ (púvnuč)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: пӱ́внӱч (pǘvnüč)
        • Ukrainian: пі́вніч (pívnič)
    • Russian: по́лночь (pólnočʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: полоунощи (polunošti)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱁⰾⱆⱀⱁⱋⰻ (polunošti)

    • → Old Ruthenian: по́лнощъ (pólnošč), по́лнощь (pólnoščʹ)
  • Bulgarian: полуно́щ (polunóšt)
  • Macedonian: полноќ (polnoḱ)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по́ноћ

    Latin script: pónoć

  • Slovene: pȏłnoč (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: północ
  • Old Czech: pólnoc
    • Czech: půlnoc
  • Old Polish: północ, pułnoc
    • Polish: północ
    • Silesian: pōłnoc
  • Polabian: pölnüc
  • Slovak: polnoc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: połnóc
    • Lower Sorbian: połnoc