Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnętina

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

From *agnę(t-) (“lamb”) +‎ *-ina

Noun

*agnętina f^[1]

lamb (flesh of a lamb used as food)

Declension

Declension of *agnętina (hard a-stem, uncountable)
	singular
nominative	*agnętina
genitive	*agnętiny
dative	*agnętině
accusative	*agnętinǫ
instrumental	agnętinojǫ, agnętinǫ^**
locative	*agnętině
vocative	*agnętino

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

nouns

*agnędьje n (“lambs”)
*agnędъ m (“catkin; poplar”)
*agnica f (“female lamb?”)
*agnьcь m (“lamb”)
*agnъ m (“lamb”)

verbs

*agniti impf (“to yean”)

adjectives

*agnęťьjь (“of lamb”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ягня́ціна (jahnjácina)
- Russian: ягня́тина (jagnjátina)
- Ukrainian: ягня́тина (jahnjátyna)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ја̀њетина, ја̀гњетина
  
  Latin script: jànjetina, jàgnjetina
- Slovene: jágnjetina, jagnjetína (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jěhnětina (“lambskin”)
  - Czech: jehnětina (“lambskin”), jehněčina (“lambskin, lamb meat”)^[2]^[3]
- Polish: jagnięcina
- Slovak: jahňacina
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: jagnjeśina

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnętina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56
^ “jehnětina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
^ “jehněčina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnętina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56

[2] “jehnětina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

[3] “jehněčina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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