Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sěno

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *śáina, cf. Lithuanian šiẽnas, Latvian sìens, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“pale, faint”) (with loss of the laryngeal before *-y-). Possibly related to Ancient Greek κοινά (koiná) (see there for further discussion).

Noun

*sě̑no n

1. hay

Inflection

Declension of *sě̑no (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sě̑no	*sě̑ně	*sěnà
genitive	*sě̑na	*sěnù	*sě̃nъ
dative	*sě̑nu	*sěnomà	*sěnòmъ
accusative	*sě̑no	*sě̑ně	*sěnà
instrumental	*sě̑nъmь, *sě̑nomь*	*sěnomà	*sěný
locative	*sě̑ně	*sěnù	*sěně̃xъ
vocative	*sě̑no	*sě̑ně	*sěnà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сѣно (sěno)
    • Belarusian: се́на (sjéna)
    • Russian: се́но (séno)
    • Ukrainian: сі́но (síno)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: сѣно (sěno)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⱑⱀⱁ (sěno)

  • Bulgarian: сено́ (senó), ся́ну (sjánu) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: сено (seno)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: се̑но, си̏јено

    Latin: sȇno, sȉjeno

  • Slovene: senọ̑ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sěno
    • Czech: seno
  • Kashubian: sano
  • Polabian: śonü
  • Polish: siano
  • Slovak: seno
  • Slovincian: sanô
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: syno

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сено”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress