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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnica
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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
Inflection
Declension of *agnica (soft a-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *agnica | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
| genitive | *agnicę̇ | *agnicu | *agnicь |
| dative | *agnici | *agnicama | *agnicamъ |
| accusative | *agnicǫ | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
| instrumental | *agnicejǫ, *agnicǫ** | *agnicama | *agnicami |
| locative | *agnici | *agnicu | *agnicasъ, *agnicaxъ* |
| vocative | *agnice | *agnici | *agnicę̇ |
* -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).
** 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).
Related terms
nouns
verbs
adjectives
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: ягни́ця (jahnýcja)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin script: jàgnica
- Cyrillic script: ја̀гњица
- Slovene: jágnjica (tonal orthography)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: jehnice
- Slovak: jahnica
References
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56
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