Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nana

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

Alternative forms

• *ňaňa
• *nena, *neňa
• *nanъ m

Noun

*nana m

1. nurse, nanny

Declension

Declension of *nana (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nana	*naně	*nany
genitive	*nany	*nanu	*nanъ
dative	*naně	*nanama	*nanamъ
accusative	*nanǫ	*naně	*nany
instrumental	*nanojǫ, *nanǫ**	*nanama	*nanami
locative	*naně	*nanu	*nanasъ, *nanaxъ*
vocative	*nano	*naně	*nany

^* -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).

Descendants

From *nana:

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: на́на (nána)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: на́на

    Latin script: nána

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: *nána
    • Czech: nána (dialectal)
  • Polish: nana (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Slovak: nano
  • Pomeranian:
    • Slovincian: nana

From *ňaňa:

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ня́ня (njánja)
  • Middle Russian: нꙗ́нꙗ (njánja)
    • Russian: ня́ня (njánja)
  • Ukrainian: ня́ня (njánja)
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Czech: ňano
  • Polish: niania (dialectal)
  • Slovak: ňaňa