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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plugъ

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

*plugъ (museum exhibit)

Etymology

Borrowed from a Germanic language[1] (compare Old High German pfluog), from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz ~ *plōguz. Also loaned into Lithuanian plūgas.

Noun

*plùgъ m[1][2][3]

  1. plough
    Hyponyms: *ordlo (ard plough), *soxa (stick plough)

Usage notes

The term may have originally referred to frame-ploughs, invented around 1st cent. AD by the Romans. It was probably intended for plowing tougher soils, which could not be handled by simpler tools such as *ordlo and *soxa. According to Schuster-Šewc, the tool had spread from Raetia or Eastern Gallia into the Langobards and from them into the remaining Germanic and Central European people.

Declension

See also

  • *pluga (groove, trail), *plugovina (rugged soil) (< perhaps *pluti (to flow) + *-ga)
    • *plužiti (to drag)[3]
      • Czech: ploužit se (to drag)

Descendants

References

  1. Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 86: “PSl. *plugъ ‘plough’ (m. o-stem); AP (a)”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), plugъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (SA 155; PR 131; RPT 97, 101)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), plug”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *plűgъ”

Further reading

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