Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vesna
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *was(e)r, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥.
Noun
- spring (season)
Inflection
Declension of *vesnà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *vesnà | *vȅsně | *vȅsny |
genitive | *vesný | *vesnù | *vèsnъ |
dative | *vesně̀ | *vesnàma | *vesnàmъ |
accusative | *vȅsnǫ | *vȅsně | *vȅsny |
instrumental | *vesnojǫ́ | *vesnàma | *vesnàmi |
locative | *vȅsně | *vesnù | *vesnàsъ, *vesnàxъ* |
vocative | *vesno | *vȅsně | *vȅsny |
* -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.
See also
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “весна́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vesnà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 517: “f. ā ‘spring’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “vesna vesny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c forår (PR 138)”
Categories:
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Proto-Slavic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic lemmas
- Proto-Slavic nouns
- Proto-Slavic feminine nouns
- Proto-Slavic hard a-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c