Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cěna

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Noun

*cěnà f

1. price
2. value

Inflection

*cěnà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*cěnà	*cěně	*cě̑ny
Accusative	*cě̑nǫ	*cěně	*cě̑ny
Genitive	*cěný	*cěnu	*cě̃nъ
Locative	*cě̑ně	*cěnu	*cěnàsъ, *cěnàxъ*
Dative	*cěně̀	*cěnama	*cěnàmъ
Instrumental	*cěnojǫ́	*cěnama	*cěnàmi
Vocative	*cěno	*cěně	*cě̑ny

^* -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.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: цѣна (cěna)
    • Belarusian: цана́ (caná)
    • Russian: цена́ (cená)
    • Ukrainian: ціна́ (ciná)

• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: цѣна (cěna)

    Glagolitic: ⱌⱑⱀⰰ (cěna)

  • Bulgarian: цена́ (cená)
  • Macedonian: цена (cena)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: цијѐна (dialectal це́на)

    Latin: cijèna (dialectal céna)

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): cīnȁ, acc. cīnȕ
    • Chakavian (Hvar): cīnȁ, acc. cȋnu, cīnȕ
    • Chakavian (Novi): cēnȁ, acc. cēnȕ
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): acc. cⁱȇno
  • Slovene: cẹ́na (tonal orthography)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: cena
  • Polish: cena
  • Slovak: cena

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 75
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “цена”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress
• Trubačev O. N., editor (1976), “*cěna”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 03, Moscow: Nauka, page 182