Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stegno

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

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teygʷ-no- (“flank, side”); compare Proto-Celtic *toybos (“side”) and Old Armenian թեկն (tʿekn, “shoulder, scapula, back”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Per Derksen, may be from an unspecified root meaning “to stab”; see *(s)teyg-.

Noun

*stegnò n

thigh
Synonym: *bedro

Declension

Declension of *stegnò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*stegnò	*stègně	*stegnà
Accusative	*stegnò	*stègně	*stegnà
Genitive	*stegnà	*stegnù	*stègnъ
Locative	*stegně̀	*stegnù	*stègněxъ
Dative	*stegnù	*stegnòma	*stegnòmъ
Instrumental	stegnъ̀mь, stegnòmь^*	*stegnòma	*stègny
Vocative	*stegnò	*stègně	*stegnà

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: сцягно́ (scjahnó)
- Russian: стегно́ (stegnó)
- Ukrainian: стегно́ (stehnó)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: стегно (stegno)
  - Bulgarian:
- Macedonian:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: сте̑гно
  Latin: stȇgno
  - Montenegrin (Piperi): stegnȍ
- Slovene: stégno
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: stehno
  - Czech: stehno
- Polabian: stegnü
- Polish: ścięgno
- Slovak: stehno
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: sćogno
  - Upper Sorbian: sćehno

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “стегно́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*stegno”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 466
Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 182: “*teigʷ- ‘± side’”