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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tьrnъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tirnas, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, although AP b is unexpected.
Noun
*tь̃rnъ m[1][2][3]
- thorn
- blackthorn, sloe-tree (Prunus spinosa)
Inflection
Declension of *tь̃rnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *tь̃rnъ | *tьrnà | *tьrnì |
Accusative | *tь̃rnъ | *tьrnà | *tьrnỳ |
Genitive | *tьrnà | *tьrnù | *tь̃rnъ |
Locative | *tьrně̀ | *tьrnù | *tь̃rněxъ |
Dative | *tьrnù | *tьrnòma | *tьrnòmъ |
Instrumental | *tьrnъ̀mь, *tьrnòmь* | *tьrnòma | *tь̃rny |
Vocative | *tьrne | *tьrnà | *tьrnì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *tьrnьje (collective)
- *tьrnakъ (“thorny thicket”)
- *tьrnina (“sloe”)
Related terms
- *tьrti, *terti (“to rub”)
- *tryti (“to scrub”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: тьрнъ (tĭrnŭ)
- Belarusian: цёрн (cjorn)
- Russian: тёрн (tjorn), тёрен (tjóren)
- Ukrainian: те́рен (téren)
- Old East Slavic: тьрнъ (tĭrnŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: трьнъ (trĭnŭ), трънъ (trŭnŭ)
- Bulgarian: трън (trǎn)
- Macedonian: трн (trn)
- Serbo-Croatian: тр̑н, tȓn, tȑń, tr̃n
- Slovene: tŕn (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: trn
- Czech: trn
- Kashubian: cérzniô
- Polabian: dren
- Old Polish: tarn, cirń
- Polish: tarń, cierń
- Slovak: tŕň
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: ćerń
- Lower Sorbian: śerń
- Old Czech: trn
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “терн”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “тёрн”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 238
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “тёрн”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tь̀rnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 505: “m. o (b) ‘thorn’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “tьrnъ tьrna”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (sek. tьrno) thorn, spine (NA 109, 141; SA 21)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “tŕn”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *tьrnъ̏”