Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agodina

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agodina

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 *àgoda (“berry”) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*agodina f[1]

1. (collective) some plants, possibly strawberries

Inflection

Declension of *agodina (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*agodina	*agodině	*agodiny
Accusative	*agodinǫ	*agodině	*agodiny
Genitive	*agodiny	*agodinu	*agodinъ
Locative	*agodině	*agodinu	*agodinasъ, *agodinaxъ*
Dative	*agodině	*agodinama	*agodinamъ
Instrumental	*agodinojǫ, *agodinǫ**	*agodinama	*agodinami
Vocative	*agodino	*agodině	*agodiny

^* -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

• *agodica f (“cheek”)
• *agodišče n (“place where the berries grow”)
• *agodьje n (“berries”)
• *agodьnica f
• *agodьnikъ m

 

adjectives

• *agodьnъ (“pertaining to berry, of berry”)

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: ягодина (jagodina, “Ficus sycomorus”)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin: jȁgodina (“some plant”)

    Cyrillic: ја̏година (“some plant”)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jahodina (“strawberry bush”)
    • Czech: jahodina (“strawberry bush”)

References

1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agodina?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 59