Where does “адъ” come from?
адъ (Old East Slavic) comes from Old Church Slavonic адъ, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης, from Proto-Indo-European n̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ne — not.
Ancestry of “адъ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Church Slavonic | адъ | hell |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | ᾍδης | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |