Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agnica

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 *àgnę (“lamb”) or *agnъ (“sheep, lamb”) +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*agnica f^[1]

female lamb? young lamb?

Inflection

Declension of *agnica (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*agnica	*agnici	*agnicę̇
genitive	*agnicę̇	*agnicu	*agnicь
dative	*agnici	*agnicama	*agnicamъ
accusative	*agnicǫ	*agnici	*agnicę̇
instrumental	agnicejǫ, agnicǫ^**	*agnicama	*agnicami
locative	*agnici	*agnicu	agnicasъ, agnicaxъ^*
vocative	*agnice	*agnici	*agnicę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

nouns

*agnędьje n (“lambs”)
*agnędъ m (“catkin; poplar”)
*agnętina f (“lamb meat”)
*agnьcь m (“lamb”)
*agnъ m (“lamb”)

verbs

*agniti impf (“to yean”)

adjectives

*agnęťьjь (“of lamb”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: ягни́ця (jahnýcja)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: jàgnica
  
  Cyrillic script: ја̀гњица
- Slovene: jágnjica (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: jehnice
- Slovak: jahnica

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 56

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