Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnica
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Proto-Slavic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From *àgnę (“lamb”) or *agnъ (“sheep, lamb”) + *-ica.
Noun[edit]
*agnica f[1]
Inflection[edit]
Declension of *agnica (soft a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *agnica | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
genitive | *agnicę̇ | *agnicu | *agnicь |
dative | *agnici | *agnicama | *agnicamъ |
accusative | *agnicǫ | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
instrumental | *agnicejǫ, *agnicǫ** | *agnicama | *agnicami |
locative | *agnici | *agnicu | *agnicasъ, *agnicaxъ* |
vocative | *agnice | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
* -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).
** 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).
Related terms[edit]
nouns
verbs
adjectives
Descendants[edit]
- East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: ягни́ця (jahnýcja)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: jágnjica (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
References[edit]
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56