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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěno
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śáina, cf. Lithuanian šiẽnas, Latvian sìens, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“pale, faint”) (with loss of the laryngeal before *-y-). Possibly related to Ancient Greek κοινά (koiná) (see there for further discussion).
Noun
*sě̑no n[1][2]
- hay
Inflection
Declension of *sě̑no (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *sě̑no | *sě̑ně | *sěnà |
| Accusative | *sě̑no | *sě̑ně | *sěnà |
| Genitive | *sě̑na | *sěnù | *sě̃nъ |
| Locative | *sě̑ně | *sěnù | *sěně̃xъ |
| Dative | *sě̑nu | *sěnomà | *sěnòmъ |
| Instrumental | *sě̑nъmь, *sě̑nomь* | *sěnomà | *sěný |
| Vocative | *sě̑no | *sě̑ně | *sěnà |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сѣно (sěno)
- Belarusian: се́на (sjéna)
- Russian: се́но (séno)
- Ukrainian: сі́но (síno)
- Old East Slavic: сѣно (sěno)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: сѣно (sěno)
- Glagolitic: ⱄⱑⱀⱁ (sěno)
- Bulgarian: сено́ (senó), ся́ну (sjánu) (dialectal)
- Macedonian: сено (seno)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: се̑но, си̏јено
- Latin: sȇno, sȉjeno
- Slovene: senọ̑ (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: sěno
- Czech: seno
- Kashubian: sano
- Polabian: śonü
- Polish: siano
- Slovak: seno
- Slovincian: są̃nɵ
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: syno
- Old Czech: sěno
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сено”, 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), “*sě̑no”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 446
- Kapović, Mate (2007), “The Development of Proto-Slavic Quantity”, in Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, University of Vienna, page 7: “*sẹ̑no”