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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ajina

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

Abstract noun from *ȃje (“egg”) +‎ *-ina, probably originally implying "eggness" (property or feature relevant to eggs).

Noun

*ājinà f

  1. eggshell

Declension
Declension of *ājinà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *ājinà *ajĩně *ājinỳ
genitive *ājinỳ *ājinù *ajĩnъ
dative *ājině̀ *ājinàma *ājinàmъ
accusative *ājinǫ̀ *ajĩně *ājinỳ
instrumental *ājinòjǫ, *ajĩnǫ** *ājinàma *ājinàmī
locative *ājině̀ *ājinù *ājinàsъ, *ājinàxъ*
vocative *ajino *ajĩně *ājinỳ
* -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).
  • *ajьnъ (“egg-related”)
    • *ajьnikъ (“egg product”)
    • *ajьno (“amnion”)
  • *ajьčьnъ (“egg-related”)
    • *ajьčьňa (“eggness”)

Descendants
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: јајина (“eggshell”) (dialectal)
      Latin script: jajina (“eggshell”) (dialectal)

In toponyms:

  • Serbo-Croatian: Јајина

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*ajina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 62
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