Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pěsnь

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 *pěti (“to sing”) +‎ *-snь.

Noun

*pěsnь f

song

Declension

Declension of *pěsnь (i-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pěsnь	*pěsni	*pěsni
genitive	*pěsni	pěsnьju, pěsňu^*	pěsnьjь, pěsni^*
dative	*pěsni	*pěsnьma	*pěsnьmъ
accusative	*pěsnь	*pěsni	*pěsni
instrumental	pěsnьjǫ, pěsňǫ^*	*pěsnьma	*pěsnьmi
locative	*pěsni	pěsnьju, pěsňu^*	*pěsnьxъ
vocative	*pěsni	*pěsni	*pěsni

^* 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

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: пѣснь (pěsnĭ)
  - Belarusian: пе́сня (pjésnja)
  - Russian: пе́сня (pésnja)
    - Russenorsk: pæsna
  - Carpathian Rusyn: пісня (pisnja)
  - Ukrainian: пі́сня (písnja)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: пѣснь (pěsnĭ)
  
  Glagolitic: ⱂⱑⱄⱀⱐ (pěsnĭ)
- Bulgarian: песен (pesen)
- Macedonian: песна (pesna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пе̏сма/пје̏сма (< assimilated *pěsma), пјесн-ик/песн-ик
  
  Latin: pȅsma/pjȅsma/pisma (< assimilated *pěsma), pjȅsan, pjesn-ik/pesn-ik
- Slovene: pẹ̑səm (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: piesn
  - Czech: píseň
- Kashubian: piesniô
- Polabian: pesĕn
- Polish: pieśń
  - ⇒ Polish: piosnka, piosenka
- Slovak: pieseň
- Slovincian: pjêsnja
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: pěseń
  - Upper Sorbian: pěseń

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “песня”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress