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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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *agnъ (“lamb”) + *-ę.
Noun
*àgnę n[1][2][3][4]
- lamb
Declension
Declension of *àgnę (nt-stem, accent paradigm a)
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singular
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dual
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plural
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nominative
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*àgnę
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*àgnęti
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*àgnętā
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genitive
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*àgnęte
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*àgnętu
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*àgnętъ
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dative
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*àgnęti
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*àgnętьma
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*àgnętьmъ
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accusative
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*àgnę
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*àgnęti
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*àgnętā
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instrumental
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*àgnętьmь
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*àgnętьma
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*àgnętȳ
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locative
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*àgnęte
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*àgnętu
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*àgnętьxъ
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vocative
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*àgnę
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*àgnęti
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*àgnętā
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Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ꙗгнѧ (jagnę)
- Old Ruthenian: ꙗгнѧ (jahnja), ꙗгнє (jahnje), єгнє (jehnje)
- Belarusian: ягня́ (jahnjá), ягнё (jahnjó)
- Carpathian Rusyn: ягня́ (jahnjá)
- Ukrainian: ягня́ (jahnjá)
- ⇒ Russian: ягня́та pl (jagnjáta)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Glagolitic script: ⰰⰳⱀⱔ (agnę)
- Old Cyrillic script: агнѧ (agnę), ⰰⰳⱀⱔ (agnę) — Glagolitic
- Bulgarian: а́гне (ágne)
- Macedonian: ја́гне (jágne)
- → Old East Slavic: агнѧ (agnę)
- Old Ruthenian: агнѧ (ahnja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ја̏гње, ја̏ње
- Latin script: jȁgnje, jȁnje
- Slovene: jágnje (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jěhně
- Old Polish: jagnię, jegnię
- Polabian: jogną
- Pomeranian:
- Slovak: jahňa
- Sorbian:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ягненок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “ягня”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*àgnę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 26: “n. nt (a) ‘lamb’”
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 54
- ^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “agnę”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 150
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “agnę -ęte”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 142; PR 132)”