-знь

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Russian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-znь. The spelling in the nominative case may have been influenced by Old Church Slavonic -знь (-znĭ), as -зень would probably be expected, compare Czech bázeň, Polish bojaźń, Serbo-Croatian бојазан, Slovene bojazen and Bulgarian боя́зън (bojázǎn) exhibiting -zьnь while deriving from *bojaznь.

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-знь • (-znʹ)

  1. suffix appended to verbs to create nouns denoting act, state
    ‎боя́ться (bojátʹsja, “to fear, to be afraid (of),”) + ‎-знь (-znʹ) → ‎боя́знь (bojáznʹ, “fear, phobia”)
    ‎жить (žitʹ, “to live”) + ‎-знь (-znʹ) → ‎жизнь (žiznʹ, “life”)

Declension

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Declension of -знь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative -знь
-znʹ 		-зни
-zni
genitive -зни
-zni 		-зней
-znej
dative -зни
-zni 		-зням
-znjam
accusative -знь
-znʹ 		-зни
-zni
instrumental -знью
-znʹju 		-знями
-znjami
prepositional -зни
-zni 		-знях
-znjax
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