Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mękyna
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *mękъkъ.
Noun
[edit]*mękyna f
Declension
[edit]Declension of *mękyna (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *mękyna | *mękyně | *mękyny |
genitive | *mękyny | *mękynu | *mękynъ |
dative | *mękyně | *mękynama | *mękynamъ |
accusative | *mękynǫ | *mękyně | *mękyny |
instrumental | *mękynojǫ, *mękynǫ** | *mękynama | *mękynami |
locative | *mękyně | *mękynu | *mękynasъ, *mękynaxъ* |
vocative | *mękyno | *mękyně | *mękyny |
* -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).
** 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).
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: меки́на (mekína)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: мѐкиње pl
- Slovene: mekína (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Polish: miękina
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мяки́на”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress