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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stegno

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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

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teygʷ-no- (flank, side); compare Proto-Celtic *toybos (side) and Old Armenian թեկն (tʻekn, shoulder, scapula, back). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Per Derksen, may be from an unspecified root meaning “to stab”; see *(s)teyg-.

Noun

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*stegnò n

  1. thigh
    Synonym: *bedro

Declension

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Descendants

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References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стегно́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*stegno”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 466
  • Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 182:*teigʷ- ‘± side’