умъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *umъ. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic оумъ (umŭ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈumʊ/→/ˈumʊ/→/ˈum/

(ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈumʊ/
(ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈumʊ/
(ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈum/

Hyphenation: у‧мъ

Noun

умъ (umŭ) m

mind
soul
thought
- 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[1], page 4:
  и ꙗко же плѣньникомъ оумъ стоить оу родитель своихъ.
  i jako že plěnĭnikomŭ umŭ stoitĭ u roditelĭ svoixŭ.
  And just like to prisoners the thought is directed to their own parents.
knowledge
understanding

Declension

Declension of умъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	умъ umŭ	ума uma	уми umi
genitive	ума uma	уму umu	умъ umŭ
dative	уму umu	умома umoma	умомъ umomŭ
accusative	умъ umŭ	ума uma	умꙑ umy
instrumental	умъмь umŭmĭ	умома umoma	умꙑ umy
locative	умѣ umě	уму umu	умѣхъ uměxŭ
vocative	уме ume	ума uma	уми umi

Synonyms

(mind): разумъ (razumŭ), размꙑслъ (razmyslŭ)
(thought): мꙑсль (myslĭ), размꙑслъ (razmyslŭ)

Descendants

Old Ruthenian: умъ (um)
- Belarusian: ум (um)
- Carpathian Rusyn: ум (um)
- Ukrainian: ум (um)
Russian: ум (um)

References

Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙋмъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1211