habinaf

Umbrian
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Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Italic *agʷn-īnā f (“ewe lamb”),[1][2] akin to Latin agnus (“lamb, kid”),[3] with dissimilative loss of the first */-n-/ and unetymological /h-/ possibly emerged by influence of a hypothetical *hedīn-o- (“kid, young goat”), suffixed cognate of Latin haedus (“kid”),[1] attested as Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌽 (gaitein, “kid”).[2]

Alternatively from Proto-Italic *fab-īnā f (literally “related to fava beans”). Animals were fed such to facilitate their pregnancy.[4] The /h-/ is not an expected outcome, and would imply the term to be borrowed from a neighboring Italic variety: compare Faliscan haba. See also felsva.

Only attested in the plural.

Noun

habinaf • (/habīnaf/) f pl

  1. sacrificial animals. See etymology.
    1. (most likely) ewe lambs[1][2][3]
    2. (less likely) (female) breeding animals, most probably sows[4]

Attested forms
Inflection of *habinaf? f pl
accusative
e.Ig. 𐌇𐌀𐌐𐌉𐌍𐌀𐌚 (hapinaf), 𐌇𐌀𐌁𐌉𐌍𐌀 (habina)
l.Ig. habina
genitive
e.Ig. 𐌇𐌀𐌐𐌉𐌍𐌀𐌓𐌖 (hapinaru)

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “agnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 30
  2. Roland G. Kent (1926), “On Some Animal Names in Italic”, in Language, volume 2, issue 3, →JSTOR, pages 189–190
  3. Buck, Carl Darling (1904), “habina”, in A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 336
  4. Ancillotti, Augusto; Cerri, Romolo (2015), “habina”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 23
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