Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/asenь

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 Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s-.

Noun

*àsenь m

1. ash tree

Inflection

Declension of *àsenь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*àsenь	*àseni	*àsenьjē, *àseňē*
genitive	*àsenī	*àsenьju, *àseňu*	*àsenьjь, *àsenī*
dative	*àseni	*àsenьma	*àsenьmъ
accusative	*àsenь	*àseni	*àseni
instrumental	*àsenьmь	*àsenьma	*àsenьmī
locative	*àsenī	*àsenьju, *àseňu*	*àsenьxъ
vocative	*aseni	*àseni	*àsenьjē, *àseňē*

^* 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).

Alternative forms

• *àsenъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: ꙗ́сень (jásenʹ)
    • Belarusian: я́сень (jásjenʹ)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: я́сїнь (jásjinʹ)
    • Ukrainian: я́сень (jásenʹ); я́сінь (jásinʹ) (dialectal)
  • Russian: я́сень (jásenʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: я́сен (jásen)
  • Macedonian: јасен (jasen)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ја̏се̄н

    Latin script: jȁsēn

  • Slovene: jásen (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jasan
    • Bohemian (Chod dialect): jesan
  • Kashubian: jasón
  • Polabian: josin
  • Polish: jesion
  • Slovak: jaseň
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jaseń
    • Lower Sorbian: jaseń

Further reading

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