Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ěsninа

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

Etymology

By surface analysis, *ěsnъ +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*ěsninа f^[1]

abstract noun of *ěsnъ
clear sky

Inflection

Declension of *ěsnina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ěsnina	*ěsnině	*ěsniny
genitive	*ěsniny	*ěsninu	*ěsninъ
dative	*ěsnině	*ěsninama	*ěsninamъ
accusative	*ěsninǫ	*ěsnině	*ěsniny
instrumental	ěsninojǫ, ěsninǫ^**	*ěsninama	*ěsninami
locative	*ěsnině	*ěsninu	ěsninasъ, ěsninaxъ^*
vocative	*ěsnino	*ěsnině	*ěsniny

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *ꙗснина (*jasnina)
  - Old Ruthenian: *ꙗснина (*jasnina)
    - Ukrainian: я́снина (jásnyna) (dialectal)
  - Russian: яснина́ (jasniná) (dialectal, obsolete?)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: яснина́ (jasniná)
- Macedonian: jаснина (jasnina)
- Serbo-Croatian: jasnìna
- Slovene: jasnína (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Slovak: jasnina (rare)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ěsknina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 50

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ěsknina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 50

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