Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnędъ

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

agnędi (sense 1)

Etymology

Probably from *àgnę (“lamb”) but the construction of the word is unclear. Machek suggested that it was originally a collective word. Compare *govę̀do (“bull; cattle”).

For meaning shift compare Polish bazia (“lamb; catkin”), Belarusian багня́ (bahnjá, “lamb; catkin”), Slovak bahniatka (“catkins”) : bahniatko (“lamb”).

May be related with Ancient Greek ἄγνος (ágnos, “chaste tree”).

Noun

*agnędъ m[1][2]

(botany) catkin, ament
poplar (any tree of the genusPopulus)

Inflection

Declension of *agnędъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*agnędъ	*agnęda	*agnędi
Accusative	*agnędъ	*agnęda	*agnędy
Genitive	*agnęda	*agnędu	*agnędъ
Locative	*agnędě	*agnędu	*agnęděxъ
Dative	*agnędu	*agnędoma	*agnędomъ
Instrumental	agnędъmь, agnędomь^*	*agnędoma	*agnędy
Vocative	*agnęde	*agnęda	*agnędi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

nouns

*agnędьje n (“lambs”)

Related terms

nouns

*agnętina f (“lamb meat”)
*agnica f (“female lamb?”)
*agnьcь m (“lamb”)
*agnъ m (“lamb”)

verbs

*agniti impf (“to yean”)

adjectives

*agnęťьjь (“of lamb”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- ⇒ Belarusian: багня́ти pl (bahnjáti)
South Slavic:
- Church Slavonic: агнѧдъ (agnędŭ), агнѧдиѥ (agnędije), ꙗгнѧдиѥ (jagnędije) (Russian recension)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin: jàgnjed
  Cyrillic: ја̀гњед
  ⇒ Latin: jàgnjeda f
  ⇒ Cyrillic: ја̀гњеда f
- Slovene: jágned, jágnjed (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jěhněd
  - Czech: jehněd (dated)
  - ⇒ Czech: jehněda f
- ⇒ Old Polish: bagnięć m
  - ⇒ Polish: bagniątko m (obsolete)
- ⇒ Slovak: jahňada f; jahneda f (dialectal)

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnędъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 55
Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “agnędъ”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: National Ossoliński Institute, page 151

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnędъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 55

[2] Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “agnędъ”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: National Ossoliński Institute, page 151