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ContinuesProto-Balto-Slavic*badas[1] fromProto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-(“to prick, to dig”). Cognate withLithuanianbãdas(“hunger, famine”),Latvianbads(“hunger, famine”) and akin toOld Prussianboadis(“sting”)(i-stem). For the sense ofhunger, starvation in East Baltic, compare the dialectalProto-Slavic*dьrča(“hunger, stomach growling”) fromProto-Slavic*dьrkati(“to pluck, to tug”).
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *bȍdъ | *bȍda | *bȍdi |
| genitive | *bȍda | *bodù | *bòdъ |
| dative | *bȍdu | *bodomà | *bodòmъ |
| accusative | *bȍdъ | *bȍda | *bȍdy |
| instrumental | *bȍdъmь,*bȍdomь* | *bodomà | *bodý |
| locative | *bȍdě | *bodù | *bodě̃xъ |
| vocative | *bode | *bȍda | *bȍdi |
*-ъmь in North Slavic,-omь in South Slavic.