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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dorga
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
O-grade of Proto-Indo-European *derHgʰ- (“to pull, to drag”). Technically formed as *dorъ (“tearing”) + *-ga.
Noun
*dòrga f[1][2]
- path, road
- way
Declension
Declension of *dòrga (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *dòrga | *dòrdzě | *dòrgy |
| Accusative | *dòrgǫ | *dòrdzě | *dòrgy |
| Genitive | *dòrgy | *dòrgu | *dòrgъ |
| Locative | *dòrdzě | *dòrgu | *dòrgasъ, *dòrgaxъ* |
| Dative | *dòrdzě | *dòrgama | *dòrgamъ |
| Instrumental | *dòrgojǫ, *dòrgǭ** | *dòrgama | *dòrgamī |
| Vocative | *dòrgo | *dòrdzě | *dòrgy |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Related terms
- *dьrgati, *dьrgnǫti (“to comb, to pluck, to tug”)
- *dorža (“streambed”) (regional)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: даро́га (daróha)
- Russian: доро́га (doróga)
- Rusyn: дорога (doroha), драга (draha) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: доро́га (doróha)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: дра́га (drága, “precipice, steep”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дра̏га
- Latin: drȁga
- Slovene: drága
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: dráha
- Czech: dráha
- Kashubian: droga, darga
- Polish: droga
- (Ślemień): dróga
- Silesian: drōga
- Slovak: dráha
- Slovincian: drʉ̀ɵ̯gă
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: dróha
- Lower Sorbian: droga
- Old Czech: dráha
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “доро́га”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dorga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 74
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “драга”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 418
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*dòrga”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 113: “f. ā (a) ‘road, way’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “dorga”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (SA 177; PR 132)”