Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ogňь

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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis. Cognates include Lithuanian ugnis, Sanskrit अग्नि (agní), and Latin ignis.

According to Kortlandt *ognjь reflects a Balto-Slavic noun *ungnis in which the *-ngn- cluster blocked the operation of Winter's law. The sequence *un was lowered to *on before a tautosyllabic stop, with subsequent loss of the nasal as a result of dissimilation (as in *voda (“water”)). The expected reflex of Winter's law with a long vowel (Balto-Slavic */ū/ > Proto-Slavic */y/) is found in *vygъnjь, *vygъnja (“forge”).

Noun

1. fire

See also

• *pyrь
• *atra

Related terms

• *vygъnjь, *vygъnja (“forge”)
• *ǫglь (“coal”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: аго́нь (ahónʹ)
  • Russian: ого́нь (ogónʹ)
  • Ukrainian: во́гонь (vóhonʹ)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: огн҄ь (ognʹĭ) (jo-stem), огнь (ognĭ) (i-stem)

    Glagolitic: ⱁⰳⱀⱐ (ognĭ)

  • Bulgarian: о̀гън (ògǎn)
  • Macedonian: оган (ogan)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: о̀гањ

    Latin: òganj

  • Slovene: ógənj (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: oheň
  • Kashubian: òdżin
  • Lower Sorbian: wogeń
  • Polish: ogień
  • Slovak: oheň
  • Upper Sorbian: woheń

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 364
• Trubachyov, Oleg et al., editors (1974–2021), “*ogňь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
• Kortlandt Frederik (1979), Three problems of Balto-Slavic phonology. Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku 22/2, 57-63. p. 60f