Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/listopadъ

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

By surface analysis, *listъ (“leaf”) +‎ *-o- (“compound connector”) +‎ *padъ (“fall”), literally “leaffall”.^[1]

Noun

*listopadъ m^[1]

leaffall
name of the autumn season (autumn months)

Declension

Declension of *listopadъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*listopadъ	*listopada	*listopadi
genitive	*listopada	*listopadu	*listopadъ
dative	*listopadu	*listopadoma	*listopadomъ
accusative	*listopadъ	*listopada	*listopady
instrumental	listopadъmь, listopadomь^*	*listopadoma	*listopady
locative	*listopadě	*listopadu	*listopaděxъ
vocative	*listopade	*listopada	*listopadi

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: листопадъ (listopadŭ, “October”)
  - Old Ruthenian: листопадъ (listopad, “November”)
    - Belarusian: лістапа́д (listapád, “November”)
    - Ukrainian: листопа́д (lystopád, “November; leaffall time”)
  - Russian: листопа́д (listopád, “leaffall in autumn; autumn time”); листопа́дь (listopádʹ, “autumn”) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic script: ⰾⰻⱄⱅⱁⱂⰰⰴⱏ (listopadŭ, “October”)
  
  Old Cyrillic script: листопадъ (listopadŭ, “October”)
  - Bulgarian: листопа́д (listopád, “leaffall in autumn; November”); листопа́т (listopát, “November”) (dialectal, archaic)
  - Macedonian: листопад (listopad, “leaffall time”)
- Old Serbo-Croatian: listopad (“October”)
  - Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ли̏стопа̄д (“October; pile of fallen leaves; leaffall time”)
    
    Latin script: lȉstopād (“October; pile of fallen leaves; leaffall time”)
- Slovene: listopàd (“leaffall; November; October”) (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: *listopad
  - Czech: listopad (“leaffall; November”); listopád (“leaffall”) (dialectal)
- Old Polish: listopad (“November; October”)
  - Polish: listopad
  - Silesian: listopad
- Old Slovak: listopad (“autumn month name”)
  - Slovak: listopad (“November; leaffall in autumn”) (archaic, bookish)
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: listopad (“leaffall”)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*listopadъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 145

[ESSJa-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*listopadъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 145

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