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”)