àgnьcь

àgnьcь Grammatical information: m. jo Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `lamb'

Page in Trubačev: I 57

Old Church Slavic:

agnьcь `lamb' [m jo];

jagnьcь `lamb' [m jo]

Russian:

ágnec' (eccl.) `lamb' [m jo]

Czech:

jehnec (Kott) `lamb' [m jo]

Serbo-Croatian:

jȁgnjac `lamb' [m jo];

Čak. jȁńe (Vrgada) `lamb' [n nt], jå̃ńci [Nom p];

Čak. jȁnjac (Orbanići) `lamb' [m jo], jãjnci [Nom p]

Slovene:

jȃgnǝc `lamb' [m jo];

jȃgnjǝc [m jo];

ȃgnǝc `lamb' [m jo]

Indo-European reconstruction: h₂egʷ-n-

IE meaning: lamb

Certainty: +

Page in Pokorny: 9

Comments: PSl. *agn- < *h₂egʷ-n- (N.B. Winter's law) with the diminutive suffix *-ьcь < *-iko- (cf. -> *àgnę).