Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnę

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnę

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

*àgnę

Etymology

From *agnъ (“lamb”) +‎ *-ę.

Noun

*àgnę n[1][2][3][4]

1. lamb

Inflection

Declension of *àgnę (nt-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*àgnę	*àgnęti	*àgnętā
Accusative	*àgnę	*àgnęti	*àgnętā
Genitive	*àgnęte	*àgnętu	*àgnętъ
Locative	*àgnęte	*àgnętu	*àgnętьxъ
Dative	*àgnęti	*àgnętьma	*àgnętьmъ
Instrumental	*àgnętьmь	*àgnętьma	*àgnętȳ
Vocative	*àgnę	*àgnęti	*àgnętā

Derived terms

nouns

• *agnędъ m (“catkin; poplar”)
• *agnętina f (“lamb meat”)

 

adjectives

• *agnęťьjь (“of lamb”)

 

Related terms

nouns

• *agnędьje n (“lambs”)
• *agnica f (“female lamb?”)
• *agnьcь m (“lamb”)
• *agnъ m (“lamb”)

 

verbs

• *agniti impf (“to yean”)

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: агнѧ (agnę), ꙗгнѧ (jagnę)
    • Belarusian: ягня́ (jahnjá)
    • Russian: ягнёнок (jagnjónok)
    • Ukrainian: ягня́ (jahnjá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: агнѧ (agnę) (Suprasliensis, Zographensis)

    Glagolitic: ⰰⰳⱀⱔ (agnę)

  • Bulgarian: а́гне (ágne)
  • Macedonian: ја́гне (jágne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ја̏гње, ја̏ње

    Latin: jȁgnje, jȁnje

  • Slovene: jágnje (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jěhně
    • Czech: jehně
  • Polish: jagnię
  • Kashubian: jagniã
  • Polabian: jogną
  • Slovak: jahňa
  • Slovincian: jãgńą
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jehnjo
    • Lower Sorbian: jagnje

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ягненок”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “ягня”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*àgnę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 26: “n. nt (a) ‘lamb’”
2. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 54
3. Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “agnę”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: National Ossoliński Institute, page 150
4. Olander, Thomas (2001), “agnę -ęte”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 142; PR 132)”