Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnьcь

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 *agnъ (“sheep, lamb”) +‎ *-ьcь.

Noun

*àgnьcь m[1][2][3]

lamb

Declension

Declension of *àgnьcь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*àgnьcь	*àgnьca	*àgnьci
genitive	*àgnьca	*àgnьcu	*àgnьcь
dative	*àgnьcu	*àgnьcema	*àgnьcēmъ
accusative	*àgnьcь	*àgnьca	*àgnьcę̇
instrumental	àgnьcьmь, àgnьcemь^*	*àgnьcema	*àgnьcī
locative	*àgnьci	*àgnьcu	*àgnьcīxъ
vocative	*àgnьče	*àgnьca	*àgnьci

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Related terms

nouns

*agnę n (“lamb”)
*agnędьje n (“lambs”)
*agnędъ m (“catkin; poplar”)
*agnętina f (“lamb meat”)
*agnica f (“female lamb?”)

adjectives

*agnęťьjь (“of lamb”)

verbs

*agniti impf (“to yean”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: агньць (agnĭcĭ), агнець (agnecĭ), агнецъ (agnecŭ), агниць (agnicĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: агнецъ (ahnecʹ)
    - Ukrainian: а́гнець (áhnecʹ) (archaic)
  - Russian: а́гнец (ágnec) (archaic)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: агньць (agnĭcĭ), ꙗгньць (jagnĭcĭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰰⰳⱀⱐⱌⱐ (agnĭcĭ), ⱑⰳⱀⱐⱌⱐ (jagnĭcĭ)
- Bulgarian: а́гне́ц (ágnéc)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ја̏гањац
  
  Latin script: jȁganjac
- Slovene: jāgnjec (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jěhnec
  - Czech: jehnec (obsolete)

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*àgnьcь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 26: “m. jo (a) ‘lamb’”
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnьcь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 57
Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “agnьcь”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 151