-знь
Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-znь. The spelling in the nominative case may have been influenced by Old Church Slavonic -знь (-znĭ), as -зень would probably be expected, compare Czech bázeň, Polish bojaźń, Serbo-Croatian бојазан, Slovene bojazen and Bulgarian боя́зън (bojázǎn) exhibiting -zьnь while deriving from *bojaznь.
Pronunciation
- -знь: IPA(key): [zʲnʲ]
Suffix
-знь • (-znʹ)
- suffix appended to verbs to create nouns denoting act, state
- боя́ться (bojátʹsja, “to fear, to be afraid (of),”) + -знь (-znʹ) → боя́знь (bojáznʹ, “fear, phobia”)
- жить (žitʹ, “to live”) + -знь (-znʹ) → жизнь (žiznʹ, “life”)
Declension
Declension of -знь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -знь -znʹ | -зни -zni |
| genitive | -зни -zni | -зней -znej |
| dative | -зни -zni | -зням -znjam |
| accusative | -знь -znʹ | -зни -zni |
| instrumental | -знью -znʹju | -знями -znjami |
| prepositional | -зни -zni | -знях -znjax |