medojědъ

medojědъ Grammatical information: adj. o

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Russian:

medoéd (dial.) `honey-lover' [m o]

Czech:

medojed (Jungmann) `honey-lover' [m o]

Serbo-Croatian:

mȅdojēd (dial.) `death's head moth' [m o]

Slovene:

medojẹ̀d `honey-eater, honey-lover' [m o], medojẹ́da [Gens]

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Comments: For morphological as well as semantic reasons the noun *medojedъ must be a more recent formation than *medvědь .

Other cognates:

Skt. madh(u)vád- `honey-eater'

Notes:

\{1\} The Psalter of Dimitri belongs to the corpus which was discovered at St. Catherine's monastery in 1975. Strictly speaking it might be classified as a Middle Bulgarian text (Birnbaum and Schaeken 1997: 143). \{2\} The attestations occur in a Croatian MS. from the 14th century and a Serbian MS. from the 15th century, respectively. \{3\} In West Slavic, we find secondary forms with n-, e.g. (O)Pl. niedźwiedź , OCz. nedvěd.