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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ťuďь

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 *ťudь (“foreign people”) +‎ *-jь (attested in Old East Slavic чудь (čudĭ, “Chud people”), an exonym for Baltic Finns), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”) via:

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian tautà (“people”), Latvian tàuta (“people”), tauto (“people”). Probably also cognate with Hungarian tót (“Slavic person (Slovak, Croat)”).

For the meaning compare *ľudьskъ (“foreign”) (< *ľudъ/*ľudь (“people”)), Polish obcy (“unfamiliar”) (< *obьťь (“common”)) and also Tocharian A lyutan (“loca externa”)

Adjective

*ťȗďь[1][2]

  1. foreign, alien, strange
    Synonym: *ľudьskъ

Declension

Accent paradigm с.

See also

  • *ľudъ/*ľudь sg (“people”), *ľudьje pl
    • *ľudьjь (“people's”)
    • *ľudьskъ (“foreign”)
  • *čudo (“miracle, wonder”)

Derived terms

  • *ťuďina
    • *ťuďinьcь

Descendants

South Slavic *tuďь probably from dissimilation, though Baltic cognates have similar vocalism. Vasmer explains Church Slavonic and Bulgarian 'ч' ('щ' is expected) as influence of чудо (čudo, “wonder, miracle”).

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: чужы́ (čužý)
    • Russian: чужо́й (čužój)
    • Rusyn: чуджи́й (čudžýj)
    • Ukrainian: чужи́й (čužýj)
    • Old Novgorodian: цюже (cjuže)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: cuzí
      • Czech: cizí
        • Moravian (Mistřice): cuzí
    • Kashubian: cëzy
    • Polabian: ceudzi
    • Polish: cudzy (“someone else's”)
    • Slovak: cudzí
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

References

  1. Snoj, Marko (2016), “túj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “iz pslovan. *t'ȗd'ь”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “tjudjь tjudja tjudje”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c fremmed (PR 138)”
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