Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolgo

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolgo

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

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.

Noun

*bȏlgo n[2][3]

1. blessing, good, well-being

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:
  • Old East Slavic: болого (bologo)
    • Russian: бо́лого (bólogo) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: бо́лого (bóloho)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: благо (blago)

    Glagolitic: ⰱⰾⰰⰳⱁ (blago)

    • → Old East Slavic: благо (blago)
  • Bulgarian: бла́го (blágo)
  • Macedonian: благо (blago)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: бла̑го

    Latin: blȃgo

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): blᵒȃgo
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): blȃgo
  • Slovene: blagọ̑ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: blaho
    • Czech: blaho
  • Old Polish: błogo
    • Polish: błogo
  • Slovak: blaho

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

1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 124-25
2. 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)”
3. Olander, Thomas (2001), “bolgo”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c gode (PR 138)”