Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jьmę

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *inˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Noun edit

*jь̏mę n^[1]^[2]

name

Declension edit

Declension of *jь̏mę (n-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*jь̏mę	*jь̏meni	*jьmenà
genitive	*jь̏mene	*jьmenù	*jьmènъ
dative	*jь̏meni	*jьmenьmà	*jьmènьmъ
accusative	*jь̏mę	*jь̏meni	*jьmenà
instrumental	*jь̏menьmь	*jьmenьmà	*jьmený
locative	*jь̏mene	*jьmenù	*jьmènьxъ
vocative	*jь̏mę	*jь̏meni	*jьmenà

Derived terms edit

*jьmenitъ (“famous”)
*jьmenovati (“to name”)
*jьměno (“name, title”)

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: имѧ (imę)
  - Old Ruthenian: имѧ́ (imjá)
    - Belarusian: імя́ (imjá)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: имня́ (ymnjá)
    - Ukrainian: ім'я́ (imʺjá)
  - Russian: и́мя (ímja)
- Old Novgorodian: имѧ (imę)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: имѧ (imę)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰹⰿⱔ (imę)
- Bulgarian: и́ме (íme)
- Macedonian: и́ме (íme)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: и̏ме
  
  Latin script: ȉme
- Slovene: imẹ̑ (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jmě, jmeno, jméno
  - Czech: jméno
- Old Polish: imię, himię
  - Polish: imię
  - Silesian: imiã
- Polabian: jaimă, jaimą
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: jimiã
  - Slovincian: ymjã
- Slovak: meno
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: mě
  - Upper Sorbian: mjeno, imje, mje

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*jьmę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 212: “n. n ‘name’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “jьmę jьmena”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c navn (NA 131; PR 138)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*jьmę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 212: “n. n ‘name’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “jьmę jьmena”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c navn (NA 131; PR 138)”

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