ògn'ь

ògn'ь Grammatical information: m. i / m. jo Accent paradigm: b Proto-Slavic meaning: `fire'

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Old Church Slavic:

ognь `fire' [m i], ogni [Gens];

ogn'ь `fire' [m jo], ognja [Gens]

Russian:

ogón' `fire' [m jo], ognjá [Gens];

ogon' (N. dial.) `fire' [m? i], ogni [Gens]

Ukrainian:

ohón' (dial.) `fire' [m jo], ohnjú [Gens];

ohén' (dial.) `fire' [m i], ohný [Gens]

Czech:

oheň `fire' [m jo]

Slovak:

oheň `fire' [m jo]

Polish:

ogień `fire' [m jo]

Slovincian:

vùo̯gȯu̯n `fire' [m jo]

Upper Sorbian:

woheń `fire' [m jo]

Lower Sorbian:

wogeń `fire' [m jo]

Serbo-Croatian:

òganj `fire' [m jo], ògnja [Gens];

Čak. ȍgań (Vrgada) `fire, hearth' [m jo], ȍgńa [Gens];

Čak. ogáń (Novi) `fire' [m jo], ogńȁ [Gens];

Čak. ugãnj (Orbanići) `fire' [m jo], ugnjȁ [Gens]

Slovene:

ógǝnj `fire' [m jo], ógnja [Gens]

Bulgarian:

ógăn `fire' [m jo]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: ungnis

Lithuanian:

ugnìs `fire' [f i] 4

Latvian:

uguns `fire' [f i];

uguns `fire' [m i]

Indo-European reconstruction: h₁ng^w-ni-

Comments: According to Kortlandt (1979: 60-61), *ogn'ь reflects a Balto-Slavic noun *ungnis, where *-ngn- blocked the operation of Winter's law. The sequence *un was lowered to *on before a tautosyllabic stop, with subsequent loss of the nasal as a result of dissimilation (cf. -> *vodà). Apparently, the latter development occurred in Baltic as well. The expected reflex of Winter's law is found in -> *vỳgъn̨ь, vỳgъn̨a.

Other cognates:

Skt. agní- (RV+) `fire, Agni'

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Lat. ignis `fire'