sьrna

sьrna Grammatical information: f. ā Proto-Slavic meaning: `roe'

Church Slavic:

srъna (RuCS) `roe' [f ā]

Russian:

sérna `chamois' [f ā]

Old Russian:

sьrna `roe' [f ā]

Czech:

srna `roe' [f ā]

Slovak:

srna `roe' [f ā]

Polish:

sarna `roe' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

sŕna `roe' [f ā]

Slovene:

sŕna `roe' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

sărná `roe' [f ā]

Lithuanian:

stìrna `roe' [f ā] \{1\}

Latvian:

stir̃na `roe' [f ā] \{1\}

Indo-European reconstruction: ḱrH₂-neh₂ \{1\}

Comments: Other possibile reconstructions are *ḱrH-neh₂, with the root of Lith. šérnas `wild boar', šìrvas `dapple-grey', and *srH-neh₂, cf. Lith. sar̃tas `fox-red', Latv. sãrts `reddish'.

Notes:

\{1\} The anlaut of the Baltic forms is problematic. The existence of a Latvian variant sirna is uncertain.