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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolgo
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
According to Pokorny, the word may have originally meant "light," from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”).[1] Probably cognate with Sanskrit बृहस्पति (bṛhaspati), Avestan bǝrǝg, Avestan bǝrǝǰayeiti.
Inflection
Declension of *bȏlgo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *bȏlgo | *bȏldzě | *bolgà |
Accusative | *bȏlgo | *bȏldzě | *bolgà |
Genitive | *bȏlga | *bolgù | *bõlgъ |
Locative | *bȏldzě | *bolgù | *boldzě̃xъ |
Dative | *bȏlgu | *bolgomà | *bolgòmъ |
Instrumental | *bȏlgъmь, *bȏlgomь* | *bolgomà | *bolgý |
Vocative | *bolgo | *bȏldzě | *bolgà |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *bolgъ
- *bolžiti
- *bolgyni (“prosperity, welfare”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “бо́лого”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 124-25
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bȏlgo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 51: “n. o (c)”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “bolgo”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c gode (PR 138)”
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