адъ

See also: ꙗдъ

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Noun

адъ • (adŭm

  1. hell, Hades, Sheol, the abode of the dead before the Last Judgement
    • Ретъко, editor (1025±50?), Codex Suprasliensis[1] (in Old Church Slavonic), page (leaf) 224.5, line 7:
      богъ въ малѣ о̑усьпе · и҅ съпꙙштꙙѧ о҅тъ вѣка о҅тъ а҅да въскрѣси ·
      bogŭ vŭ malě ȏusĭphe · i sŭpęštęjhę otŭ věkha otŭ hada vŭskrěsi ·
      For a short time God fell asleep, and awoke out of Hell those who were sleeping from of old.
  2. (less commonly) hell, Gehenna, the abode of the damned after judgement

Descendants

  • Serbo-Croatian: ад
  • Bulgarian: ад (ad)
  • Old East Slavic: адъ (adŭ)
  • Romanian: iad

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic адъ (adŭ), from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑdʊ//ˈadʊ//ˈad/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɑdʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈadʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈad/

  • Hyphenation: адъ

Noun

адъ (adŭm

  1. hell

Declension

Declension of адъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative адъ
adŭ
ада
ada
ади
adi
genitive ада
ada
аду
adu
адъ
adŭ
dative аду
adu
адома
adoma
адомъ
adomŭ
accusative адъ
adŭ
ада
ada
адꙑ
ady
instrumental адъмь
adŭmĭ
адома
adoma
адꙑ
ady
locative адѣ
adě
аду
adu
адѣхъ
aděxŭ
vocative аде
ade
ада
ada
ади
adi

Descendants

References

  • Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2019) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije: Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ.”, in Languages of Slavic Culture[2] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 537:адъad