Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/negodějь

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 *ne +‎ *goděti +‎ *-jь,

Noun

*negodějь m

  1. scoundrel, villain

Inflection

Declension of *negodějь (soft o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *negodějь *negoděja *negoději
genitive *negoděja *negoděju *negodějь
dative *negoděju *negodějema *negodějemъ
accusative *negodějь *negoděja *negoděję̇
instrumental *negodějьmь, *negodějemь* *negodějema *negoději
locative *negoději *negoděju *negodějixъ
vocative *negoděju *negoděja *negoději

* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *негодѣи (*negoděi)
      • Old Ruthenian: негодꙗ́й (nehodjáj)
        • Belarusian: негадзя́й (njehadzjáj), негодзя́й (njehodzjáj) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: негодя́й (nehodjáj)
      • Middle Russian: негодꙗ́й (negodjáj)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: Nehodiv (village in Bohemia) (shortened form of earlier *Nehodejevo)

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*negodějь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 128