Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prisęga

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prisęga

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

Noun

*prisę̀ga f[1]

1. oath, vow

Inflection

Declension of *prisę̀ga (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*prisę̀ga	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gy
Accusative	*prisę̀gǫ	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gy
Genitive	*prisę̀gy	*prisę̀gu	*prisę̀gъ
Locative	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gu	*prisę̀gasъ, *prisę̀gaxъ*
Dative	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gama	*prisę̀gamъ
Instrumental	*prisę̀gojǫ, *prisę̀gǭ**	*prisę̀gama	*prisę̀gamī
Vocative	*prisę̀go	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gy

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: прыся́га (prysjáha)
  • Russian: прися́га (prisjága)
  • Ukrainian: прися́га (prysjáha)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: присѧга (prisęga)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: присега

    Latin: prȉsega

  • Slovene: prisẹ̑ga (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: přísaha
  • Polish: przysięga
  • Slovak: prísaha
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pśisega
    • Upper Sorbian: přisaha

References

1. Snoj, Marko (2016), “prisẹ̑ga”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar³ (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*prisę̋ga”

Further Reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “прися́га”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress