Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnętina
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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. |
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).
** 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).
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Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ја̀њетина, ја̀гњетина
- Latin script: jànjetina, jàgnjetina
- Slovene: jágnjetina, jagnjetína (tonal orthography)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
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