Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/polъnoťь

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

Compound of *polъ +‎ *noťь.

Noun

*pólъnoťь f^[1]

Inflection

Declension of *pȍlъnoťь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pȍlъnoťь	*pȍlъnoťi	*pȍlъnoťi
genitive	*polъnoťí	polъnoťьjù, polъnoťu^*	*polъnoťь̀jь
dative	*pȍlъnoťi	*polъnoťьmà	*pȍlъnoťьmъ
accusative	*pȍlъnoťь	*pȍlъnoťi	*pȍlъnoťi
instrumental	*polъnoťьjǫ́	*polъnoťьmà	*polъnoťьmì
locative	*polъnoťí	polъnoťьjù, polъnoťu^*	*pȍlъnoťьxъ
vocative	*polъnoťi	*pȍlъnoťi	*pȍlъnoťi

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: полъночь (polŭnočĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: по́вночъ (póvnoč), по́лночъ (pólnoč), по́лночь (pólnočʹ)
    - Belarusian: по́ўнач (póŭnač), по́ўныч (póŭnyč), по́ўноч (póŭnoč), пуовночь (puovnočʹ)
    - Middle Ukrainian: пѡ́внѡчъ (pốvnôč), пу́внучъ (púvnuč)
      - Carpathian Rusyn: пӱ́внӱч (pǘvnüč), пу́внуч (púvnuč)^[2]
      - Ukrainian: пі́вніч (pívnič)
  - Russian: по́лночь (pólnočʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: полоунощи (polunošti)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱂⱁⰾⱆⱀⱁⱋⰻ (polunošti)
  - → Old Ruthenian: по́лнощъ (pólnošč), по́лнощь (pólnoščʹ)
- Bulgarian: полуно́щ (polunóšt)
- Macedonian: полноќ (polnoḱ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: по́ноћ
  
  Latin script: pónoć
- Slovene: pȏłnoč (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: północ
- Old Czech: pólnoc
  - Czech: půlnoc
- Old Polish: północ, pułnoc
  - Polish: północ
  - Silesian: pōłnoc
- Polabian: pölnüc
- Slovak: polnoc
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: połnóc
  - Lower Sorbian: połnoc

References

^ Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2004), “по́ўнач”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 9 (пе-пе-пе – прасна́к), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 307
^ Чорі, Юрій (2015) Фразеолоґізмы русинського языка. Том 1, page 124, 235, 466, 486

[1] Tsykhun, G. A., editor (2004), “по́ўнач”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 9 (пе-пе-пе – прасна́к), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 307

[2] Чорі, Юрій (2015) Фразеолоґізмы русинського языка. Том 1, page 124, 235, 466, 486

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