Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stegno

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

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teygʷ-no- (“flank, side”); compare Proto-Celtic *toybos (“side”) and Old Armenian թեկն (tʻekn, “shoulder, scapula, back”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Per Derksen, may be from an unspecified root meaning “to stab”; see *(s)teyg-.

Noun

*stegnò n

1. thigh

   Synonym: *bedro

Declension

Declension of *stegnò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*stegnò	*stègně	*stegnà
genitive	*stegnà	*stegnù	*stègnъ
dative	*stegnù	*stegnòma	*stegnòmъ
accusative	*stegnò	*stègně	*stegnà
instrumental	*stegnъ̀mь, *stegnòmь*	*stegnòma	*stègny
locative	*stegně̀	*stegnù	*stègněxъ
vocative	*stegnò	*stègně	*stegnà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: сцягно́ (scjahnó)
  • Russian: стегно́ (stegnó)
  • Ukrainian: стегно́ (stehnó)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: стегно (stegno)
    • Bulgarian:
  • Macedonian:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сте̑гно

    Latin script: stȇgno

    • Montenegrin (Piperi): stegnȍ
  • Slovene: stégno
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: stehno
    • Czech: stehno
  • Polabian: stegnü
  • Polish: ścięgno
  • Old Slovak: stehno
    • Slovak: stehno
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: sćogno
    • Upper Sorbian: sćehno

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стегно́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*stegno”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 466
• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 182: “*teigʷ- ‘± side’”