Reconstruction talk:Proto-Slavic/agnę

CodeCat, the language is called "Old East Slavic", and the branch is called "East Slavic". --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 02:53, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Russian and Bulgarian агнец continue Common Slavic *agnьcь, not *agnę. Furthermore, Russian а́гнец comes from ecclesiastical usage which means that it is likely a Church Slavicism which by itself definitely continues *agnьcь via Old Church Slavonic, and is not a simple derivation of the root агн- and the suffix -ец. Derksen and ESSJa both separate Russian and Bulgarian reflexes under different Proto-Slavic headwords, and Vasmer has two different headwords for etymologies of а́гнец and ягнёнок (see references on both pages). --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 05:42, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Old Church Slavonic агньць could go there as well and Russian/Bulgarian агнец as another leaf. *agnьcь is also a derivation of agnę, not a different root. Change it the way if you feel very strongly about it and if your resources separate the two. Strictly speaking, Russian hasn't preserved a suffixless derivation of *agnę. I also think *agnьcь and *agnę should link to each other. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:03, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Well they do link to each other (see ====Derived terms====). The whole point of having separate entries is to show that already in Proto-Slavic there were both *agnę and its derived (diminutive) form *agnьcь. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 07:09, 12 August 2013 (UTC)