Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnica

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 *àgnę (“lamb”) or *agnъ (“sheep, lamb”) +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*agnica f

1. female lamb? young lamb?

Inflection

Declension of *agnica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*agnica	*agnici	*agnicę̇
genitive	*agnicę̇	*agnicu	*agnicь
dative	*agnici	*agnicama	*agnicamъ
accusative	*agnicǫ	*agnici	*agnicę̇
instrumental	*agnicejǫ, *agnicǫ**	*agnicama	*agnicami
locative	*agnici	*agnicu	*agnicasъ, *agnicaxъ*
vocative	*agnice	*agnici	*agnicę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

nouns

• *agnędьje n (“lambs”)
• *agnędъ m (“catkin; poplar”)
• *agnętina f (“lamb meat”)
• *agnьcь m (“lamb”)
• *agnъ m (“lamb”)

verbs

• *agniti impf (“to yean”)

adjectives

• *agnęťьjь (“of lamb”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: ягни́ця (jahnýcja)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: jàgnica

    Cyrillic script: ја̀гњица

  • Slovene: jágnjica (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jehnice
  • Slovak: jahnica