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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/něga
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Probably deverbal from *něgati.
Noun
*něga f[1]
- care, nurture
- delight, tenderness
Declension
Declension of *něga (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *něga | *nědzě | *něgy |
Accusative | *něgǫ | *nědzě | *něgy |
Genitive | *něgy | *něgu | *něgъ |
Locative | *nědzě | *něgu | *něgasъ, *něgaxъ* |
Dative | *nědzě | *něgama | *něgamъ |
Instrumental | *něgojǫ, *něgǫ** | *něgama | *něgami |
Vocative | *něgo | *nědzě | *něgy |
* -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).
Derived terms
- *Něgomirъ
- *Něgoslavъ
- *Něgovojь
- *Něgošь
- *Něgota
- *něžьnъ
- *něgovati
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: нѣга (něga)
- Belarusian: нега (njeha)
- Russian: не́га (néga)
- Ukrainian: нíга (níha)
- Old East Slavic: нѣга (něga)
- South Slavic:
- Church Slavonic: нѣга (něga)
- Bulgarian: нѐга (nèga) (poetic); Нѣга (Něga), Ня́га (Njága) (personal name)
- Macedonian: нега (nega)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: њега, нега
- Latin: njega, nega
- Slovene: néga
- West Slavic:
- Czech: něhа (dated)
- Old Polish: Niega (personal name)
- Slovak: neha
References
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*něga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 97
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “нега”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress