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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnęťьjь

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

From *àgnę (lamb) + *-ьjь.

Adjective

*agnęťьjь[1]

  1. (relational) lamb, from the lamb

Inflection

nouns
verbs

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: ягня́чий (jagnjáčij)
    • Ukrainian: ягня́чий (jahnjáčyj)
  • South Slavic:
    • Church Slavonic: агнѧшть (agnęštĭ) (Serbian recension)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin script: jàgnjeći, jagnjèći, janjeći
      Cyrillic script: ја̀гњећи, јагњѐћи, јањећи
    • Slovene: jagneči, jágnječji, jánječi (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: jehněčí; jehněcí (dated)
    • Slovak: jahňací
    • Polish: jagnięcy
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: jagńecy

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnęťьjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56
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