Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/činъ

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-Indo-European *kʷey-no-, from *kʷey-.

Noun edit

*čȋnъ m^[1]^[2]

dignity

Inflection edit

Declension of *čȋnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čȋnъ	*čȋna	*čȋni
genitive	*čȋna	*činù	*čĩnъ
dative	*čȋnu	*činomà	*činòmъ
accusative	*čȋnъ	*čȋna	*čȋny
instrumental	čȋnъmь, čȋnomь^*	*činomà	*činý
locative	*čȋně	*činù	*čině̃xъ
vocative	*čine	*čȋna	*čȋni

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms edit

*činiti

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: чинъ (činŭ)
- Belarusian: чын (čyn)
- Russian: чин (čin)
  - Slovene: čin
- Ukrainian: чин (čyn)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: чинъ (činŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱍⰻⱀⱏ (činŭ)
- Bulgarian: чин (čin)
- Macedonian: чин (čin)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: чи̑н
  
  Latin script: čȋn
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: čin
  - Czech: čin
- Polish: czyn
- Slovak: čin

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*čȋnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 89: “m. o (c)”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “činъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c rang, værdighed (PR 137)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*čȋnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 89: “m. o (c)”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “činъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c rang, værdighed (PR 137)”

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