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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sernъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śer(s)nos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer(H)-no-m. Cognate with Latvian sȩ̄rsna (“hoarfrost”), Lithuanian šerkšnas (“hoarfrost”), Old Armenian սառն (saṙn, “ice”), Proto-Germanic *herzną.
Noun
*sẽrnъ m[1]
- hoarfrost, crust of ice
- Synonym: *jьnьjь
Inflection
Declension of *sẽrnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *sẽrnъ | *sērnà | *sērnì |
| Accusative | *sẽrnъ | *sērnà | *sērnỳ |
| Genitive | *sērnà | *sērnù | *sẽrnъ |
| Locative | *sērně̀ | *sērnù | *sẽrněxъ |
| Dative | *sērnù | *sērnòma | *sērnòmъ |
| Instrumental | *sērnъ̀mь, *sērnòmь* | *sērnòma | *sẽrny |
| Vocative | *serne | *sērnà | *sērnì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Alternative forms
- *sẽrňь
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: серенъ (serenŭ)
- Belarusian: се́рен (sjérjen)
- Russian: серён (serjón) (dialectal), се́рен (séren) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: сере́н (serén)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: срѣнъ (srěnŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⱄⱃⱑⱀⱏ (srěnŭ)
- Slovene: sren, srenj
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: stříň
- Old Polish: śrzon
- Polish: szron
- Slovak: srieň
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “серён”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sérnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444