jagnje

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• jagńe (superseded)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *agnę, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaɡnʲɛ/, [ˈjaɡnʲə]

Noun

jagnje n ? (genitive singular jagnjeśa, diminutive jagnjetko)

1. lamb (“young sheep”)

Declension

declension of jagnje

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	jagnje	jagnjeśi	jagnjeta
Genitive	jagnjeśa	jagnjeśowu	jagnjetow
Dative	jagnjeśeju	jagnjeśoma	jagnjetam
Accusative	jagnje	jagnjeśi	jagnjeta
Instrumental	jagnjeśim	jagnjeśoma	jagnjetami
Locative	jagnjeśu	jagnjeśoma	jagnjetach

Hypernyms

• wójca (“sheep”)

Coordinate terms

• baran (“ram”)
• skop (“wether”)
• śiba (“ewe”)

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “jagńe”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “jagnje”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Croatian) jȁnje

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *(j)agnę, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jâɡɲe/
• Hyphenation: jag‧nje

Noun

jȁgnje n (Cyrillic spelling ја̏гње)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) lamb; a young sheep

Declension

Declension of jagnje

	singular	plural
nominative	jagnje	jagnjad
genitive	jagnjeta	jagnjadi
dative	jagnjetu	jagnjadi
accusative	jagnje	jagnjad
vocative	jagnje	jagnjadi
locative	jagnjetu	jagnjadi
instrumental	jagnjetom	jagnjađu / jagnjadi

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *(j)agnę, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jàːɡnjɛ/

Noun

jágnje n

1. lamb

Inflection

Declension of jagnje (neuter, t-stem)
nom. sing.	jagnje
gen. sing.	jagnjeta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	jagnje	jagnjeti	jagnjeta
accusative	jagnje	jagnjeti	jagnjeta
genitive	jagnjeta	jagnjet	jagnjet
dative	jagnjetu	jagnjetoma	jagnjetom
locative	jagnjetu	jagnjetih	jagnjetih
instrumental	jagnjetom	jagnjetoma	jagnjeti