Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/serdina

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 *serda +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*serdina f

midst, middle

Declension

Declension of *serdina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*serdina	*serdině	*serdiny
genitive	*serdiny	*serdinu	*serdinъ
dative	*serdině	*serdinama	*serdinamъ
accusative	*serdinǫ	*serdině	*serdiny
instrumental	serdinojǫ, serdinǫ^**	*serdinama	*serdinami
locative	*serdině	*serdinu	serdinasъ, serdinaxъ^*
vocative	*serdino	*serdině	*serdiny

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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 Ruthenian: сере́дина (serédina)
  - Belarusian: сярэ́дзіна (sjarédzina), серэ́дзіна (sjerédzina)
  - Ukrainian: сере́дина (serédyna), середи́на (seredýna)
- Russian: середи́на (seredína)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: [Term?]
  
  Glagolitic: [Term?]
  - → Russian: среди́на (sredína)
- Bulgarian: средина (sredina)
- Macedonian: средина (sredina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: средѝна
  
  Latin script: sredìna
- Slovene: sredína (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: srjedźina