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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnędъ

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
*agnędi (sense 1)

Etymology

Probably from *àgnę (“lamb”) but the construction of the word is unclear. Machek suggested that it was originally a collective word. Compare *govę̀do (“bull; cattle”).

For meaning shift compare Polish bazia (“lamb; catkin”), Belarusian багня́ (bahnjá, “lamb; catkin”), Slovak bahniatka (“catkins”) : bahniatko (“lamb”).

May be related with Ancient Greek ἄγνος (ágnos, “chaste tree”).

Noun

*agnędъ m[1][2]

  1. (botany) catkin, ament
  2. poplar (any tree of the genus Populus)

Inflection
Declension of *agnędъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *agnędъ *agnęda *agnędi
genitive *agnęda *agnędu *agnędъ
dative *agnędu *agnędoma *agnędomъ
accusative *agnędъ *agnęda *agnędy
instrumental *agnędъmь, *agnędomь* *agnędoma *agnędy
locative *agnędě *agnędu *agnęděxъ
vocative *agnęde *agnęda *agnędi
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms
nouns
  • *agnędьje n (“lambs”)
nouns
verbs
adjectives

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • ⇒ Belarusian: багня́ти pl (bahnjáti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Church Slavonic: агнѧдъ (agnędŭ), агнѧдиѥ (agnędije), ꙗгнѧдиѥ (jagnędije) (Russian recension)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin script: jàgnjed
      Cyrillic script: ја̀гњед
      ⇒ Latin script: jàgnjeda f
      ⇒ Cyrillic script: ја̀гњеда f
    • Slovene: jágned, jágnjed (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: jěhněd
      • Czech: jehněd (dated)
      • ⇒ Czech: jehněda f
    • ⇒ Old Polish: bagnięć m
    • ⇒ Slovak: jahňada f; jahneda f (dialectal)

References
  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnędъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 55
  2. Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “agnędъ”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 151
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