Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/agodina

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 *àgoda (“berry”) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*agodina f^[1]

(collective) some plants, possibly strawberries

Inflection

Declension of *agodina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*agodina	*agodině	*agodiny
genitive	*agodiny	*agodinu	*agodinъ
dative	*agodině	*agodinama	*agodinamъ
accusative	*agodinǫ	*agodině	*agodiny
instrumental	agodinojǫ, agodinǫ^**	*agodinama	*agodinami
locative	*agodině	*agodinu	agodinasъ, agodinaxъ^*
vocative	*agodino	*agodině	*agodiny

^* -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

*agodica f (“cheek”)
*agodišče n (“place where the berries grow”)
*agodьje n (“berries”)
*agodьnica f
*agodьnikъ m

adjectives

*agodьnъ (“pertaining to berry, of berry”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: ягодина (jagodina, “Ficus sycomorus”)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: jȁgodina (“some plant”)
  
  Cyrillic script: ја̏година (“some plant”)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jahodina (“strawberry bush”)
  - Czech: jahodina (“strawberry bush”)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agodina?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 59

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*agodina?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 59

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