Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rana

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

Probably related to Sanskrit व्रण (vraṇá, “wound”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, tearing”).

According to Zhanna Varbot, from *ronìti.^[1]

Noun edit

*ràna f^[2]^[3]^[4]

wound

Declension edit

Declension of *ràna (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ràna	*ràně	*ràny
genitive	*ràny	*rànu	*rànъ
dative	*ràně	*rànama	*rànamъ
accusative	*rànǫ	*ràně	*ràny
instrumental	rànojǫ, rànǭ^**	*rànama	*rànamī
locative	*ràně	*rànu	rànasъ, rànaxъ^*
vocative	*ràno	*ràně	*ràny

^* -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 edit

*raniti (“to wound”)
- *raňenъ (“wounded”)

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ра́на (rána)
  - Old Ruthenian: ра́на (rána)
    - Belarusian: ра́на (rána)
    - Ukrainian: ра́на (rána)
  - Russian: ра́на (rána)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: рана (rana)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱃⰰⱀⰰ (rana)
- Old Church Slavonic: рана (rana)
- Bulgarian: рана (rana)
- Macedonian: рана (rana)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ра̏на
  
  Latin script: rȁna
- Slovene: rána
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: rána
  - Czech: rána
    - Moravian (Mistřice): rana
- Kashubian: rena
- Polabian: råno
- Polish: rana
- Slovak: rana
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: rana
  - Lower Sorbian: rana

Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: rană

References edit

^ Varbot, Zhanna Zh. (2022) “К этимологии праслав. *ranа [To the etymology of the Proto-Slavic *rana]”, in Ethnolinguistics. Onomastics. Etymology: materials of the V International Scientific Conference (Ekaterinburg, September 7–11, 2022)‎^[1] (in Russian), Ekaterinburg: Ural University Publishing House, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 51–55
^ Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎^[2], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 501
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “rana”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[3], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; RPT 109)”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “rana”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *ra̋na”

[1] Varbot, Zhanna Zh. (2022) “К этимологии праслав. *ranа [To the etymology of the Proto-Slavic *rana]”, in Ethnolinguistics. Onomastics. Etymology: materials of the V International Scientific Conference (Ekaterinburg, September 7–11, 2022)‎^[1] (in Russian), Ekaterinburg: Ural University Publishing House, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 51–55

[2] Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎^[2], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 501

[3] Olander, Thomas (2001) “rana”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[3], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132; RPT 109)”

[4] Snoj, Marko (2016) “rana”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *ra̋na”

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