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Umbrian

Etymology

Disputed. Possibilities include:

• From Proto-Italic *faf-īnā f (literally “related to fava beans”). Animals were fed such to facilitate their pregnancy. Neither the /h-/ nor /-b-/ would be expected outcomes, and would imply the word to be borrowed from a neighboring Italic variety: compare Faliscan haba (“bean”), from Proto-Italic *fafā.
• From Proto-Italic *agʷn-īnā f (“ewe lamb”), with later dissimilation of the first /-n-/. The /h-/ would have emerged by influence of Proto-Italic *haidos (“goat”), unattested in Umbrian, but found as Latin haedus.

Noun

habina f

1. a sacrificial animal, disputedly one of the following (see Etymology):
   1. (female) stud, breeding animal, most probably a sow
   2. ewe lamb

Quotations

• accusative plural:
• genitive plural:

References

• Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “habina”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 23
• Buck, Carl Darling (1904) chapter 336, in A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, /mode/1up?view=theater page habina
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “agnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 30