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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jьmę
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *inˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.
Noun
*jь̏mę n[1][2]
- name
Declension
Declension of *jь̏mę (n-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *jь̏mę | *jь̏meni | *jьmenà |
| Accusative | *jь̏mę | *jь̏meni | *jьmenà |
| Genitive | *jь̏mene | *jьmenù | *jьmènъ |
| Locative | *jь̏mene | *jьmenù | *jьmènьxъ |
| Dative | *jь̏meni | *jьmenьmà | *jьmènьmъ |
| Instrumental | *jь̏menьmь | *jьmenьmà | *jьmený |
| Vocative | *jь̏mę | *jь̏meni | *jьmenà |
Derived terms
- *jьmenitъ (“famous”)
- *jьmenovati (“to name”)
- *jьměno (“name, title”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: имѧ (imę)
- Old Ruthenian: имѧ́ (imjá)
- Belarusian: імя́ (imjá)
- Rusyn: имня́ (ymnjá)
- Ukrainian: ім'я́ (imʺjá)
- Russian: и́мя (ímja)
- Old Ruthenian: имѧ́ (imjá)
- Old Novgorodian: имѧ (imę)
- Old East Slavic: имѧ (imę)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: имѧ (imę)
- Glagolitic: ⰹⰿⱔ (imę)
- Bulgarian: и́ме (íme)
- Macedonian: и́ме (íme)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: и̏ме
- Latin: ȉme
- Slovene: imẹ̑ (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jmě
- Czech: jméno
- Kashubian: miono
- Polabian: jaimă, jaimą
- Polish: imię, miano
- Silesian: mjano
- Slovak: meno
- Slovincian: mjuono; ï̂mją (in the Lord's Prayer)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mě
- Upper Sorbian: mjeno, imje, mje
- Old Czech: jmě
Further reading
- Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics), volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., pages 493–564
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*jьmę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212: “n. n ‘name’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “jьmę jьmena”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c navn (NA 131; PR 138)”