Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kyjana

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

Alternative form

*kyjanъ m, *kyjaňь

Etymology

From *kyjь (“stick, club”) +‎ *-ana.

Noun

*kyjana f^[1]

mallet, beater, wooden hammer

Declension

Declension of *kyjana (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kyjana	*kyjaně	*kyjany
genitive	*kyjany	*kyjanu	*kyjanъ
dative	*kyjaně	*kyjanama	*kyjanamъ
accusative	*kyjanǫ	*kyjaně	*kyjany
instrumental	kyjanojǫ, kyjanǫ^**	*kyjanama	*kyjanami
locative	*kyjaně	*kyjanu	kyjanasъ, kyjanaxъ^*
vocative	*kyjano	*kyjaně	*kyjany

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *кꙑꙗн- (*kyjan-)
  - Old Ruthenian: *кїꙗн- (*kijan-)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: кыянь f (kŷjanʹ)
    - Ukrainian: кия́н m (kyján), кия́на (kyjána), кия́нь (kyjánʹ) (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Czech: kyjana f; kyjaň f, kyjaňa f (dialectal)
- Old Polish: kijan m, kijania f, kijań
  - Polish: kijania f (archaic); kijań (dialectal)
- Old Slovak:
  - Pannonian Rusyn: кияня f (kijanja)
  - Slovak: kijaň f (dialectal)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjana/*kyjanъ/*kyjanь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 255

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kyjana/*kyjanъ/*kyjanь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 255

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