сьрдьце

From Proto-Slavic *sь̑rdьce. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic срьдьце (srĭdĭce) and Old Polish sierce.

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪrdɪt͡sʲɛ/, /sɪrdɪˈt͡sʲɛ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈsʲɪrdʲɪt͡sʲɛ/, /sʲɪrdʲɪˈt͡sʲɛ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈsʲɛrdʲt͡sʲɛ/, /sʲɛrdʲˈt͡sʲɛ/
• Hyphenation: сь‧рдь‧це

сьрдьце (sĭrdĭce) n (related adjective сьрдьчьнъ)

1. heart
   • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎, page 2:

     рече бо въ сьрдьци моѥмь съкрꙑхъ словеса твоꙗ да не съгрѣшѫ тебѣ·

     reče bo vŭ sĭrdĭci mojemĭ sŭkryxŭ slovesa tvoja da ne sŭgrěšǫ tebě·

     For [one] said: In my heart I hid your words so I won't commit a sin before you

• Old Ruthenian: се́рдце (sérdce)
  • Belarusian: сэ́рца (sérca); се́рца (sjérca) (dialectal)
  • Rusyn: се́рдце (sérdce)
  • Ukrainian: се́рце (sérce)
• Russian: се́рдце (sérdce); се́реце (sérece) (dialectal)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “сьрдьце”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 881
• Zaliznyak, Andrey A. (2019), “сердце”, in Древнерусское ударение: Общие сведения и словарь [Old East Slavic accent: General Information and Dictionary] (in Russian), 2nd, expanded and revised edition, Moscow: Publishing House “YASK”, →DOI, →ISBN, page 244
• Nikolaev, Sergei L. (2020) «Слово о полку Игореве»: реконструкция стихотворного текста [“The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”: reconstruction of a poetic text]‎ (in Russian), Moscow; Saint-Petersburg: Nestor-History, →ISBN, page 303