медвѣдь

From Proto-Slavic *medvědь.

медвѣдь • (medvědĭ) m

1. bear

• Serbo-Croatian: медвед
• Slovene: medved

From Proto-Slavic *medvědь. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic медвѣдь (medvědĭ) and Old Polish miedźwiedź.

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /mɛˈdʋeːdɪ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /mʲɛˈdʋʲeːdʲɪ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /mʲɛˈdʋʲɛːdʲ/, /mʲɛˈdʋʲeːdʲ/
• Hyphenation: ме‧двѣ‧дь

медвѣдь (medvědĭ) m (related adjective медвѣжии or медвѣчь)

1. bear

   ѿтѧлъ· медвѣдь ми у колѣна ― otŭtęlŭ· medvědĭ mi u kolěna ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• Old Ruthenian: медвѣ́дь (medvě́dʹ)
  • Belarusian: мядзве́дзь (mjadzvjédzʹ)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: медві́дь (medvídʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ведмі́дь (vedmídʹ)
• Russian: медве́дь (medvédʹ)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “медвѣдь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 121

• медвѣ́дъ (medvě́d), ведмѣ́дь (vedmě́dʹ), медви́дь (medvídʹ), медьвѣ́дь (medʹvě́dʹ)
• недвѣ́дь (nedvě́dʹ), недвѣ́дъ (nedvě́d), недвѣ́дзь (nedvě́dzʹ)

Inherited from Old East Slavic медвѣ́дь (medvě́dĭ), from Proto-Slavic *medvě̀dь (“bear”), possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *medwḗˀdis (“honey-eater”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu-h₁édis, from *médʰu (“honey”) + *h₁éd- (“to eat”).[1][2][3][4] Cognate with Russian медве́дь (medvédʹ), Old Polish miedźwiedź, Old Czech medvěd.

медвѣдь • (medvědʹ) m animal (related adjective медвѣ́жїй or медвѣ́дный)

1. bear

   и былъ нѣꙗкъ раненъ ѡт медьведѧ дикого ― i byl nějak ranen ot medʹvedja dikoho ― and was somehow wounded by a wild bear

   в пущи Смєдинскои звєръ бываєть мєдвєди, лоси и свини ― v pušči Smjedinskoʲi zvjer byvajetʹ mjedvjedi, losi i svini ― in the Smedinsky thick forest, there is a animals: bears, moose and pigs

   приходил левъ або медвѣдь и поривал барана зпосеред череды ― prixodil lev abo medvědʹ i porival barana zposered čeredy ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   ꙗко медведь вздраженыⸯ ― jako medvedʹ vzdraženyj ― like an angry bear

   а єще дꙗкъ на покутѣ от ꙗкъ ведмѣдь сидит ― a ješče djak na pokutě ot jak vedmědʹ sidit ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   розюшоний козакъ ꙗкъ недвѣдь ― rozjušonij kozak jak nedvědʹ ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. bearskin, bear fur

   шапка чорнаꙗ медведемъ подшита, а рукавицы ― šapka čornaja medvedem podšita, a rukavicy ― black hat made of bear and mittens

• Belarusian: мядзве́дзь (mjadzvjédzʹ)
• Carpathian Rusyn: медві́дь (medvídʹ)
• Ukrainian: ведмі́дь (vedmídʹ)

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “медвѣдь”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, numbers 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 203
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (1998), “медведь, медьведь”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 17 (лесничий – местский), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 297
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2001), “недведь, недведзь”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 20 (невагаючийся – никогды), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 65
• Chikalo, M. I., editor (2017), “медвѣдь, медвѣдъ, медьведь”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 17 (м – моавитѧнка), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 88
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2002) “недвѣдь”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 481

медвѣ́дь • (medvě́dʹ) m anim (genitive медвѣ́дя, nominative plural медвѣ́ди, genitive plural медвѣ́дей, feminine медвѣ́дица)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of медве́дь (medvédʹ).