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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnę

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ā́ˀgnent-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷn-, the stem of *h₂egʷnós, with the suffix *-ę for forming names of young animals. Acute accent and long initial vowel in Early Proto-Slavic are due to Winter's law.

Cognate with Latin agnus, Ancient Greek ἀμνός (amnós) and Old English ēanian (English yean).

Noun

*àgnę n [1][2]

  1. lamb

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *agnędъ (populus nigra)
  • *agnętina (lamb meat)
  • *agnęťьjь (lamb's)

Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*àgnę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 26: “n. nt (a) ‘lamb’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), agnę -ęte”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (SA 142; PR 132)”
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