Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/cěna

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 *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Noun

*cěnà f

1. price
2. value

Inflection

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*cěnà	*cě̑ně	*cě̑ny
genitive	*cěný	*cěnù	*cě̃nъ
dative	*cěně̀	*cěnàma	*cěnàmъ
accusative	*cě̑nǫ	*cě̑ně	*cě̑ny
instrumental	*cěnojǫ́	*cěnàma	*cěnàmi
locative	*cě̑ně	*cěnù	*cěnàsъ, *cěnàxъ*
vocative	*cěno	*cě̑ně	*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.

Derived terms

• *cěniti (“to evaluate, value”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: цѣна (cěna)
    • Belarusian: цана́ (caná)
    • Russian: цена́ (cená)
    • Ukrainian: ціна́ (ciná)
  • Old Novgorodian: кѣна (kʲæná)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: цѣна (cěna)

    Glagolitic script: ⱌⱑⱀⰰ (cěna)

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

    Cyrillic script: це́на, (dialectal) цијѐна

    Latin script: céna, (dialectal) cijèna

  • Slovene: cẹ́na (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: cena
  • Old Czech: cěna
    • Czech: cena
  • Old Polish: cena, cana
    • Polish: cena
    • Silesian: cena
  • Old Slovak: cena
    • Slovak: cena

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Latvian: cena

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “цена”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*cěna”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 182