Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/znamę

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 *ǵneh₃-men. By surface analysis, *znati +‎ *-mę. Cognate with Ancient Greek γνῶμα (gnôma, “sign, symptom”).

Noun

*znàmę n

1. sign

Inflection

Declension of *znàmę (n-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*znàmę	*znàmeni	*znàmenā
genitive	*znàmene	*znàmenu	*znàmenъ
dative	*znàmeni	*znàmenьma	*znàmenьmъ
accusative	*znàmę	*znàmeni	*znàmenā
instrumental	*znàmenьmь	*znàmenьma	*znàmenȳ
locative	*znàmene	*znàmenu	*znàmenьxъ
vocative	*znàmę	*znàmeni	*znàmenā

Derived terms

• *znamenьje
• *znamenitъ (“famous, well-known”)

Related terms

• *znati (“to know”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: знамꙗ (znamja)
    • Russian: зна́мя (známja, “banner”)
    • Ukrainian: зна́м'я (známʺja), знаме́но (znaméno)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: знамѧ (znamę)

    Glagolitic script: ⰸⱀⰰⰿⱔ (znamę)

  • Bulgarian: зна́ме (známe)
  • Macedonian: знаме (zname)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зна̏ме̄н

    Latin script: znȁmēn

• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: znamię
    • Polish: znamię
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: znamjo
    • Lower Sorbian: znamje

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 546
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “знамя”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress