Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ręsьnica

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

Diminutive form of *ręsa.

Noun

*ręsьnica f

1. eyelash

Inflection

Declension of *ręsьnica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ręsьnica	*ręsьnici	*ręsьnicę̇
genitive	*ręsьnicę̇	*ręsьnicu	*ręsьnicь
dative	*ręsьnici	*ręsьnicama	*ręsьnicamъ
accusative	*ręsьnicǫ	*ręsьnici	*ręsьnicę̇
instrumental	*ręsьnicejǫ, *ręsьnicǫ**	*ręsьnicama	*ręsьnicami
locative	*ręsьnici	*ręsьnicu	*ręsьnicasъ, *ręsьnicaxъ*
vocative	*ręsьnice	*ręsьnici	*ręsьnicę̇

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рѧсница (ręsnica)
    • Russian: ресни́ца (resníca)
    • Ukrainian: рясни́ця (rjasnýcja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: рѧсница (ręsnica)

  • Bulgarian: ресница (resnica)
  • Slovene: rẹ̑snica (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: řasnice

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ресни́ца”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress