Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/grěnь

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 *grěti (“to heat”) +‎ *-nь. Possibly akin to Latin rēn (“kidney”), Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn, “midriff, heart, seat of emotions”).

Noun

*grě̑nь f

1. blaze
2. rot, pus

Declension

Declension of *grě̑nь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*grě̑nь	*grě̑ni	*grě̑ni
genitive	*grění	*grěnьjù, *grěňu*	*grěnь̀jь
dative	*grě̑ni	*grěnьmà	*grě̑nьmъ
accusative	*grě̑nь	*grě̑ni	*grě̑ni
instrumental	*grěnьjǫ́	*grěnьmà	*grěnьmì
locative	*grění	*grěnьjù, *grěňu*	*grě̑nьxъ
vocative	*grěni	*grě̑ni	*grě̑ni

^* 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).

Alternative forms

• *granь

Derived terms

• *grěniti (“to decay, to putrefy”)
• *granivъ (“orange, rotten”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: грянь (hrjanʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: гран (gran, “rot”) (dialectal)
  • Slovene: grẹ̑n, grének (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*grěnь/*granь?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “гран”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 273