-знь

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-znь. The spelling in the nominative case may have been influenced by Old Church Slavonic -знь (-znĭ), as -зень would probably be expected, compare Czech bázeň, Polish bojaźń, Serbo-Croatian бојазан, Slovene bojazen and Bulgarian боя́зън (bojázǎn) exhibiting -zьnь while deriving from *bojaznь.

Pronunciation
  • -знь: IPA(key): [zʲnʲ]

Suffix

-знь • (-znʹ)

  1. suffix appended to verbs to create nouns denoting act, state
    ‎боя́ться (bojátʹsja, “to fear, to be afraid (of),”) + ‎-знь (-znʹ) → ‎боя́знь (bojáznʹ, “fear, phobia”)
    ‎жить (žitʹ, “to live”) + ‎-знь (-znʹ) → ‎жизнь (žiznʹ, “life”)

Declension
Declension of -знь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative -знь
-znʹ		 -зни
-zni
genitive -зни
-zni		 -зней
-znej
dative -зни
-zni		 -зням
-znjam
accusative -знь
-znʹ		 -зни
-zni
instrumental -знью
-znʹju		 -знями
-znjami
prepositional -зни
-zni		 -знях
-znjax
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