Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/badъ

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 *badati, iterative of *bosti. Parallel to Proto-Slavic *bodъ (“sting, stitch”).

Noun

*badъ m

puncture, stabbing

Declension

Declension of *badъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*badъ	*bada	*badi
genitive	*bada	*badu	*badъ
dative	*badu	*badoma	*badomъ
accusative	*badъ	*bada	*bady
instrumental	badъmь, badomь^*	*badoma	*bady
locative	*badě	*badu	*baděxъ
vocative	*bade	*bada	*badi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: бад (bad) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: bȃd (dialectal)

Further reading

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*badъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 123
Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “бад”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 25