Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vygъňь

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

*vygъňa

Etymology

Seemingly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnís (“fire”), hence a doublet of *ògňь (“fire”), with the expected reflex of Winter's law.

Noun

*vỳgъňь m

forge, hearth

Declension

Declension of *vỳgъňь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*vỳgъňь	*vỳgъňa	*vỳgъňi
genitive	*vỳgъňa	*vỳgъňu	*vỳgъňь
dative	*vỳgъňu	*vỳgъňema	*vỳgъňēmъ
accusative	*vỳgъňь	*vỳgъňa	*vỳgъňę̇
instrumental	vỳgъňьmь, vỳgъňemь^*	*vỳgъňema	*vỳgъňī
locative	*vỳgъňi	*vỳgъňu	*vỳgъňīxъ
vocative	*vỳgъňu	*vỳgъňa	*vỳgъňi

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ви̏гањ
  
  Latin script: vȉganj
- Slovene: vígənj (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: výheň
  - Czech: výheň
- Slovak: vyhňa
- Sorbian:
  Upper Sorbian: wuheń

Non-Slavic:
- → Romani:
  Balkan Romani: vigňa — Bugurdži, Crimean

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vỳgъņь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 524
Rejzek, Jiří (2001) “výheň”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 1st edition, Voznice: LEDA, →ISBN, page 725