Etymograph

English

Yamnaya

Yamnaya comes from Russian Ямная, from я́ма ‘pit’, and ultimately from Proto-Slavic *jama.

  1. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*jama‘pit, hole’reconstructed
  2. Old East Slavicmodernꙗма
  3. Russianmodernя́маjáma‘pit’
  4. Russian, derivedmodernЯмнаяJamnaja
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2015Yamnaya

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*jama‘pit, hole’reconstructed
  2. Old East Slavicmodernꙗма
  3. Russianmodernя́маjáma‘pit’
  4. Russian, derivedmodernЯмнаяJamnaja
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2015Yamnaya

Earliest quotation: 2015, Nature, Allentoft et al.: “Although European Late Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures such…”

The story

The alternative form Yamna is the corresponding form of the Ukrainian adjective я́мний.

Every English word from Proto-Slavic *jama

Today it means

name A late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers (the Pontic steppe), dating to 3300–2600 BCE, often associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Slavic *jama / Yamnaya

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