Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnętina

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnętina

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

Etymology

From *agnę(t-) (“lamb”) +‎ *-ina

Noun

*agnętina f[1]

1. lamb (flesh of a lamb used as food)

Declension

Declension of *agnętina (hard a-stem, uncountable)

	Singular
Nominative	*agnętina
Accusative	*agnętinǫ
Genitive	*agnętiny
Locative	*agnętině
Dative	*agnętině
Instrumental	*agnętinojǫ, *agnętinǫ**
Vocative	*agnętino

^* -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).

Related terms

nouns

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

 

verbs

• *agniti impf (“to yean”)

 

adjectives

• *agnęťьjь (“of lamb”)

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ягня́ціна (jahnjácina)
  • Russian: ягня́тина (jagnjátina)
  • Ukrainian: ягня́тина (jahnjátyna)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ја̀њетина, ја̀гњетина

    Latin: jànjetina, jàgnjetina

  • Slovene: jágnjetina, jagnjetína (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jěhnětina (“lambskin”)
    • Czech: jehnětina (“lambskin”), jehněčina (“lambskin, lamb meat”)[2][3]
  • Polish: jagnięcina
  • Slovak: jahňacina
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jagnjeśina

References

1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnętina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56
2. jehnětina in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
3. jehněčina in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989