Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/esenь

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 *esenis, *asenis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-en- (“harvest season”). Cognate with Sudovian asenis, Old Prussian assanis, Proto-Germanic *azaniz.^[1]

Noun

*ȅsenь f^[1]

autumn

Inflection

Declension of *ȅsenь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ȅsenь	*ȅseni	*ȅseni
genitive	*esení	esenьjù, eseňu^*	*esenь̀jь
dative	*ȅseni	*esenьmà	*ȅsenьmъ
accusative	*ȅsenь	*ȅseni	*ȅseni
instrumental	*esenьjǫ́	*esenьmà	*esenьmì
locative	*esení	esenьjù, eseňu^*	*ȅsenьxъ
vocative	*eseni	*ȅseni	*ȅseni

^* 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:
- Old East Slavic: осень (osenĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: осень (osenʹ)
    - Belarusian: во́сень (vósjenʹ)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: осї́нь (osjínʹ)
    - Ukrainian: о́сінь (ósinʹ)
  - Russian: о́сень (ósenʹ)
- Old Novgorodian: осень (osenĭ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Glagolitic script: ⰵⱄⰵⱀⱐ (esenĭ)
  
  Old Cyrillic script: ѥсень (jesenĭ)
  - Bulgarian: е́сен (ésen)
  - Macedonian: есен (esen)
  - → Old Ruthenian: єсень (jesenʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: је̏се̄н
  
  Latin script: jȅsēn
- Slovene: jesén
West Slavic:
- Czech: jeseň
- Polabian: jisin
- Old Polish:
  - Polish: jesień
  - Silesian: jesiyń
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: jeséń
  - Slovincian: wjêseń
- Old Slovak: jeseň
  - Pannonian Rusyn: єшень (ješenʹ)
  - Slovak: jeseň

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ȅsenь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 144: “f. i (c) ‘autumn’”