Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/iskrьňь

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

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Adjective

*iskrьňь

1. close

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: и́скренний (ískrennij)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: искрьнь (iskrĭnĭ)
  • Bulgarian: и́скрен (ískren)
  • Macedonian: искрен (iskren)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: и̏скрен

    Latin script: ȉskren

  • Slovene: ískrnji
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: skierny (dialectal)

Further reading

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