Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/guna
Proto-Slavic
editAlternative forms
edit- *guňa
Etymology
editPossibly from Proto-Iranian *gawnám (“hair; colour”), whence Persian گون (gun, “colour”), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊𐬥𐬀 (gaona, “hair; colour”), Ossetian хъуын (qwyn), гъун (ǧun, “hair”), Old Armenian գոյն (goyn, “colour”) and Ancient Greek καυνάκης (kaunákēs), γαυνάκης (gaunákēs, “thick fur cloack”) and ancient Iranian names Ancient Greek Ἀλογουνη (Alogounē), Ῥοδογουνη (Rhodogounē), Φραταγουνη (Phratagounē). Ultimately of unclear origin, though possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”).
Similarity with Proto-Turkic *kȫn (“leather, skin”), whence Ottoman Turkish گون (gön), Azerbaijani gön, Kazakh көн (kön), Bashkir күн (kün), Uyghur كۆن (kön), Kumyk гён (gön), Southern Altai кӧн (kön), is likely coincidental.
Akin to Lithuanian gunė (“coarse horse blanket”), either a cognate or a descendant.
Noun
edit*guna f
Declension
editsingular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *guna | *guně | *guny |
genitive | *guny | *gunu | *gunъ |
dative | *guně | *gunama | *gunamъ |
accusative | *gunǫ | *guně | *guny |
instrumental | *gunojǫ, *gunǫ** | *gunama | *gunami |
locative | *guně | *gunu | *gunasъ, *gunaxъ* |
vocative | *guno | *guně | *guny |
** 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).
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
References
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*guna/*gun'a”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 175
- Vasmer, Max (1964) “гу́ня”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – Д), Moscow: Progress, page 475
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гуня, гуна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 294
- Sławski, Franciszek, editor (2001), “gun'a”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 8 (goda – gyža), Wrocław: Ossolineum, →ISBN, page 308
- Skok, Petar (1971) “gunj”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 634
- Abajev, V. I. (1973) “qoyna/ǧun”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 326f.