medvě̀dь

medvě̀dь Grammatical information: m. jo Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `bear'

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Old Church Slavic:

medvědь (PsDim.) `bear' [m jo] \{1\}

Church Slavic:

medvědь (Par., Hval.) `bear' [m jo] \{2\}

Russian:

medvéd' `bear' [m jo]

Czech:

medvěd `bear' [m o]

Slovak:

medved' `bear' [m o]

Polish:

miedźwiedź (arch., dial.) `bear' [m jo] \{3\}

Serbo-Croatian:

mèdvjed `bear' [m o];

Čak. medvȉd (Vrgada) `bear' [m o];

Čak. medvȉd (Novi) `bear' [m o];

Čak. medvȅd (Orbanići) `bear' [m o]

Slovene:

médvẹd `bear' [m o], medvẹ́da [Gens]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: medveʔd-i-

Indo-European reconstruction: medʰ-u-h₁ed-i-

IE meaning: honey-eater

Certainty: +

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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.