Mind & speech

shame

Source:*stydъProto-Slaviccertain

*sormъ shows pleophony at work: Ukrainian со́ром, BCS sram, Russian (Church Slavonic) срам.

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English

shame

Polish

wstyd

fstɨt

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Russian
стыдstyd
stɨtinherited
Ukrainian
со́ромsorom
ˈsɔrɔmdifferent word · Proto-Slavic *sormъ 'shame'
Russian срам is the Church Slavonic shape of the same word; со́ром is the native East Slavic one.
Polish
wstyd
fstɨtinherited
With the prefix w- (*vъ-).
Czech
stud
stutinherited
From the ablaut variant *studъ; the verb is stydět se 'to be ashamed'.
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
stidстид
stidinherited
Sram, from *sormъ like Ukrainian со́ром, is just as common, especially in Croatian.
English
shame