Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nana

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

*nana m^[2]^[3]

nurse, nanny

Declension

Declension of *nana (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nana	*naně	*nany
genitive	*nany	*nanu	*nanъ
dative	*naně	*nanama	*nanamъ
accusative	*nanǫ	*naně	*nany
instrumental	nanojǫ, nanǫ^**	*nanama	*nanami
locative	*naně	*nanu	nanasъ, nanaxъ^*
vocative	*nano	*naně	*nany

^* -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).

Descendants

From *nana:

South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: на́на (nána)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: на́на
  
  Latin script: nána
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: *nána
  - Czech: nána (dialectal)
- Polish: nana (dialectal)
- ⇒ Slovak: nano
- Pomeranian:
  - Slovincian: nana

From *ňaňa:

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ня́ня (njánja)
- Middle Russian: нꙗ́нꙗ (njánja)
  - Russian: ня́ня (njánja)
- Ukrainian: ня́ня (njánja)
West Slavic:
- ⇒ Czech: ňano
- Polish: niania (dialectal)
- Slovak: ňaňa

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*nena”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 166
^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1995), “*nana, *nanъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 22 (*naděliti – *narodъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 196
^ Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “ня́нька”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*nena”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 166

[2] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1995), “*nana, *nanъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 22 (*naděliti – *narodъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 196

[3] Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “ня́нька”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka

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