Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ščenę

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

Derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sken-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ken-, with the suffix *-ę for forming names of young animals.

Noun

*ščȅnę n

1. young animal

Declension

Declension of *ščȅnę (nt-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ščȅnę	*ščȅnęti	*ščenętà
genitive	*ščȅnęte	*ščenętù	*ščenę̃tъ
dative	*ščȅnęti	*ščenętьmà	*ščenę̃tьmъ
accusative	*ščȅnę	*ščȅnęti	*ščenętà
instrumental	*ščȅnętьmь	*ščenętьmà	*ščenętý
locative	*ščȅnęte	*ščenętù	*ščenę̃tьxъ
vocative	*ščȅnę	*ščȅnęti	*ščenętà

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: щенѧ (ščenę)
    • Old Ruthenian: щенѧ́ (ščenjá), сченѧ́ (sčenjá), щенє́ (ščenjé)
      • Belarusian: шчаня́ (ščanjá), шчанё (ščanjó)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: щеня́ (ščenjá)
      • Ukrainian: щеня́ (ščenjá)
    • ⇒ Middle Russian: щенокъ (ščenok) (c. 1618)
      • Russian: щено́к (ščenók)
  • Old Novgorodian: щенѧ (śćenę)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: щенѧ (štenę)
  • Bulgarian: щене́ (štené)
  • Serbo-Croatian: štène／штѐне
  • Slovene: ščenè (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ščeně
    • Czech: štěně
  • Kashubian: szczeniã
  • Polabian: stiną
  • Old Polish: szczenię
    • Polish: szczenię
  • Slovak: štеňа
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: šćenjo
    • Lower Sorbian: šćenje

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 486
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “щено́к”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “щеня”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 504