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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnica
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *àgnę (“lamb”) or *agnъ (“sheep, lamb”) + *-ica.
Noun
*agnica f[1]
- female lamb? young lamb?
Inflection
Declension of *agnica (soft a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *agnica | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
Accusative | *agnicǫ | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
Genitive | *agnicę̇ | *agnicu | *agnicь |
Locative | *agnici | *agnicu | *agnicasъ, *agnicaxъ* |
Dative | *agnici | *agnicama | *agnicamъ |
Instrumental | *agnicejǫ, *agnicǫ** | *agnicama | *agnicami |
Vocative | *agnice | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Related terms
nouns
- *agnędьje n (“lambs”)
- *agnędъ m (“catkin; poplar”)
- *agnętina f (“lamb meat”)
- *agnьcь m (“lamb”)
- *agnъ m (“lamb”)
verbs
- *agniti impf (“to yean”)
adjectives
- *agnęťьjь (“of lamb”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: ягни́ця (jahnýcja)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: jàgnica
- Cyrillic: ја̀гњица
- Slovene: jágnjica (tonal orthography)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: jehnice
- Slovak: jahnica
References
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56