Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ščenę

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.

Derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sken-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ken-, with the suffix *-ę for forming names of young animals.

*ščȅnę n

1. young animal

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: щенѧ (ščenę)
    • Old Ruthenian: щенѧ́ (ščenjá), сченѧ́ (sčenjá), щенє́ (ščenjé)
      • Belarusian: шчаня́ (ščanjá), шчанё (ščanjó)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: щеня́ (ščenjá)
      • Ukrainian: щеня́ (ščenjá)
    • ⇒ Middle Russian: щенокъ (ščenok) (c. 1618)
      • Russian: щено́к (ščenók)
  • Old Novgorodian: щенѧ (ščenę)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: штенѧ (štenę)
  • Bulgarian: щене́ (štené)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: штѐне

    Latin script: štène

  • Slovene: ščenè (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ščeně
    • Czech: štěně
  • Kashubian: szczeniã
  • Polabian: stiną
  • Old Polish: szczenię
    • Polish: szczenię
  • Slovak: štеňа
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: šćenjo
    • Lower Sorbian: šćenje

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 486
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “щено́к”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “щеня”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 504