Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sernъ

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-Balto-Slavic *śer(s)nos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer(H)-no-m. Cognate with Latvian sȩ̄rsna (hoarfrost), Lithuanian šerkšnas (hoarfrost), Old Armenian սառն (saṙn, ice), Proto-Germanic *herzną.

Noun

*sẽrnъ m[1]

  1. hoarfrost, crust of ice
    Synonym: *jьnьjь

Inflection

Declension of *sẽrnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *sẽrnъ *sērnà *sērnì
genitive *sērnà *sērnù *sẽrnъ
dative *sērnù *sērnòma *sērnòmъ
accusative *sẽrnъ *sērnà *sērnỳ
instrumental *sērnъ̀mь, *sērnòmь* *sērnòma *sẽrny
locative *sērně̀ *sērnù *sẽrněxъ
vocative *serne *sērnà *sērnì

* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms

  • *sẽrňь

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: серенъ (serenŭ)
    • Belarusian: се́рен (sjérjen)
    • Russian: серён (serjón) (dialectal), се́рен (séren) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: сере́н (serén)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: срѣнъ (srěnŭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⱄⱃⱑⱀⱏ (srěnŭ)
    • Slovene: sren, srenj
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: stříň
    • Old Polish: śron
    • Slovak: srieň

Further reading

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

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sérnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444