Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žena

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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *génāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.[1]

Noun

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*ženà f[1]

  1. woman
  2. wife

Inflection

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Declension of *ženà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *ženà *žèně *ženỳ
genitive *ženỳ *ženù *žènъ
dative *ženě̀ *ženàma *ženàmъ
accusative *ženǫ̀ *žèně *ženỳ
instrumental *ženòjǫ, *žènǫ** *ženàma *ženàmī
locative *ženě̀ *ženù *ženàsъ, *ženàxъ*
vocative *ženo *žèně *ženỳ

* -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).

Derived terms

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See also

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “жена”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žena”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ženà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558