Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/basnь

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

Action noun of *bati, *bajati (“to tell, to narate”) +‎ *-snь, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, to tell”). Akin to Latin fābula (“narative”), Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“prayer”) and formally related to Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma, “apparition, phantom”) (from another meaning of the same PIE root).

Noun

*bàsnь f[1][2]

  1. tale, poem, fable (succinct instructive story)
  2. (rare) spell, incantation

Alternative forms

  • *bàsňa (ja-stem)
  • *basma (in Serbo-Croatian)

Declension

Declension of *bàsnь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *bàsnь *bàsni *bàsni
genitive *bàsnī *bàsnьju, *bàsňu* *bàsnьjь, *bàsnī*
dative *bàsni *bàsnьma *bàsnьmъ
accusative *bàsnь *bàsni *bàsni
instrumental *bàsnьjǫ, *bàsňǭ* *bàsnьma *bàsnьmī
locative *bàsnī *bàsnьju, *bàsňu* *bàsnьxъ
vocative *basni *bàsni *bàsni

* 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).

Derived terms

  • *basnьnikъ (“poet, fabler”)
  • *basnica (“narative”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: баснь (basnʹ) (archaic), ба́сня (básnja)
    • Ukrainian: ба́сні (básni)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: баснь (basnĭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⰱⰰⱄⱀⱐ (basnĭ)
    • Bulgarian: ба́сня (básnja), ба́сница (básnica)
    • Macedonian: басна (basna)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ба̏сна
      Latin script: bȁsna
    • Slovene: bȃsen (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: básn
    • Old Polish: baśń
    • Slovak: báseň
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: basń
      • Upper Sorbian: basń, basnica
  • Non-Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ба́сня”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*basnь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 161
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “басня”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 35

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*basnъ; *bàsņa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 34: “f. i; f. jā”
  2. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “basen”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *ba̋snь”
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