Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnę

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 *ā́ˀgnent-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷn-, the stem of *h₂egʷnós, with the suffix *-ę for forming names of young animals. Acute accent and long initial vowel in Early Proto-Slavic are due to Winter's law.

Cognate with Latin agnus, Ancient Greek ἀμνός (amnós) and Old English ēanian (English yean).

Noun

*àgnę n

1. lamb

Inflection

Declension of *àgnę (nt-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*àgnę	*àgnęti	*àgnętā
genitive	*àgnęte	*àgnętu	*àgnętъ
dative	*àgnęti	*àgnętьma	*àgnętьmъ
accusative	*àgnę	*àgnęti	*àgnętā
instrumental	*àgnętьmь	*àgnętьma	*àgnętȳ
locative	*àgnęte	*àgnętu	*àgnętьxъ
vocative	*àgnę	*àgnęti	*àgnętā

Derived terms

• *agnędъ (“populus nigra”)
• *agnętina (“lamb meat”)
• *agnęťьjь (“lamb's”)

• *agnica (“female lamb”)
• *agniti (“to yean”)
• *a̋gnьcь (“lamb”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: агнѧ (agnę), ꙗгнѧ (jagnę)
    • Belarusian: ягня́ (jahnjá)
    • Russian: ягнёнок (jagnjónok)
    • Ukrainian: ягня́ (jahnjá)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: агнѧ (agnę) (Suprasliensis, Zographensis)

    Glagolitic script: ⰰⰳⱀⱔ (agnę)

  • Bulgarian: а́гне (ágne)
  • Macedonian: ја́гне (jágne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ја̏гње

    Latin script: jȁgnje, jȁnje

  • Slovene: jágnje (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jehně
  • Polish: jagnię
  • Slovak: jahňa
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jehnjo
    • Lower Sorbian: jagnje

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ягненок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 01 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 54