Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sernъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *śer(s)nos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer(H)-no-m. Cognate with Latvian sȩ̄rsna (“hoarfrost”), Lithuanian šerkšnas (“hoarfrost”), Old Armenian սառն (saṙn, “ice”), Proto-Germanic *herzną.

Noun

*sẽrnъ m

1. hoarfrost, crust of ice

   Synonym: *jьnьjь

Inflection

Declension of *sẽrnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sẽrnъ	*sērnà	*sērnì
genitive	*sērnà	*sērnù	*sẽrnъ
dative	*sērnù	*sērnòma	*sērnòmъ
accusative	*sẽrnъ	*sērnà	*sērnỳ
instrumental	*sērnъ̀mь, *sērnòmь*	*sērnòma	*sẽrny
locative	*sērně̀	*sērnù	*sẽrněxъ
vocative	*serne	*sērnà	*sērnì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms

• *sẽrňь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: серенъ (serenŭ)
  • Belarusian: се́рен (sjérjen)
  • Russian: серён (serjón) (dialectal), се́рен (séren) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: сере́н (serén)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: срѣнъ (srěnŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱄⱃⱑⱀⱏ (srěnŭ)

  • Slovene: sren, srenj
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: stříň
  • Old Polish: śron
    • Polish: szron
  • Slovak: srieň

Further reading

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