ȅsenь

ȅsenь Grammatical information: f. i Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `autumn'

Page in Trubačev: VI 28-29

Church Slavic:

esenь (Const.) `autumn' [Accf i]

Russian:

ósen' `autumn' [f i];

jésen' (Rjaz.) `autumn' [f i]

Ukrainian:

ósin' `autumn' [f i]

Slovak:

jeseň `autumn' [f i]

Polish:

jesień `autumn' [f i]

Serbo-Croatian:

jȅsēn `autumn' [f i];

Čak. jȅsēn (Vrgada) `autumn' [f i];

Čak. jȅsēn (Novi) `autumn' [f i];

Čak. jȅsen (Orbanići) `autumn' [nd]

Slovene:

jesę́n `autumn' [f i]

Bulgarian:

jésen `autumn' [f i]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: es-eni-

Old Prussian:

assanis `autumn'

IE meaning: summer, autumn

Certainty: +

Page in Pokorny: 340

Comments: If the root is indeed PIE *h₁s `to be', which would lead to a reconstruction *h₁os-en-, the e- of the Slavic forms as opposed to the *o- elsewhere (Old Prussian being inconclusive) may be an instance of ablaut or a result of "Rozwadowski's change".

Other cognates:

Gk. ὀπώρα, ὀπάρα (Lak.) `late summer, early autumn' [f];

Go. asans `harvest time, summer' [f];

OHG ar(a)n `harvest'

;

Fi. kesä `summer'

Notes:

The e- of the Slavic forms as opposed to the *o- elsewhere (Old Prussian being unclear) may be an instance of ablaut or a result of "Rozwadowski's change", but it must be said that the etymology is unclear. The Greek forms may reflect *οσαρᾱ, which would point to an r/n-stem.