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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/jḗˀgāˀ
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
Related to *jḗˀgtei (“to be able”) + *-āˀ, probably akin to Ancient Greek ἥβη (hḗbē, “youth, vigour”) (from Proto-Indo-European *yegʷ- / *Hyeh₂gʷ-?). Per Nikolaev (cited by Villanueva Svensson), possibly an example of Narten acrostatic noun[1].
Within Slavic, comparison has been drawn to Russian я́глый (jáglyj, “vigorous, energetic”) (of disputed origin).
Noun
*jḗˀgāˀ f[2]
- capacity, power
Declension
Declension of *jḗˀgāˀ (ā-stem, fixed accent) | ||||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
Nominative | *jḗˀgāˀ | *jḗˀgāiˀ | *jḗˀgās | |
Accusative | *jḗˀgā(ˀ)n | *jḗˀgāiˀ | *jḗˀgā(ˀ)ns | |
Genitive | *jḗˀgā(ˀ)s | *jḗˀgāu(ˀ) | *jḗˀgōn | |
Locative | *jḗˀgāiˀ | *jḗˀgāu(ˀ) | *jḗˀgā(ˀ)su | |
Dative | *jḗˀgāi | *jḗˀgā(ˀ)mā(ˀ) | *jḗˀgā(ˀ)mas | |
Instrumental | *jḗˀgāˀn | *jḗˀgā(ˀ)māˀ | *jḗˀgā(ˀ)mīˀs | |
Vocative | *jḗˀga | *jḗˀgāiˀ | *jḗˀgās |
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latvian: jȩ̃ga (“sense, meaning”)
- Lithuanian: jėgà (“strenght”) (stress pattern 2 or 4)
References
- Villanueva Svensson, Miguel (2011), “Indo-European long vowels in Balto-Slavic”, in Baltistica XLVI, pages 16: “Proto-Baltic immobile noun with acute intonation”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “jėga”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 210
Further reading
- “jėga”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “яглый”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress