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. 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

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “агнец”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress