Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnętina

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

*agnęt- +‎ *-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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ягня́ціна (jahnjácina)
  • Russian: ягня́тина (jagnjátina)
  • Ukrainian: ягня́тина (jahnjátyna)

• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ја̀њетина, ја̀гњетина

    Latin script: jànjetina, jàgnjetina

  • Slovene: jágnjetina, jagnjetína (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jehněčina
  • Polish: jagnięcina
  • Slovak: jahňacina
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jagnjeśina

Further reading

• 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