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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pěga
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *poyg-.
Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit पिङ्गल (piṅgala, “reddish brown, reddish yellow, greenish yellow”), Latin pingō (“I paint”).
Noun
*pě̀ga f[1]
- freckle
Inflection
Declension of *pě̀ga (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *pě̀ga | *pě̀dzě | *pě̀gy |
| Accusative | *pě̀gǫ | *pě̀dzě | *pě̀gy |
| Genitive | *pě̀gy | *pě̀gu | *pě̀gъ |
| Locative | *pě̀dzě | *pě̀gu | *pě̀gasъ, *pě̀gaxъ* |
| Dative | *pě̀dzě | *pě̀gama | *pě̀gamъ |
| Instrumental | *pě̀gojǫ, *pě̀gǭ** | *pě̀gama | *pě̀gamī |
| Vocative | *pě̀go | *pě̀dzě | *pě̀gy |
* -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).
Alternative forms
- *pě̀gъ
Related terms
- *pěgavъ
Descendants
- East Slavic: —
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: пѣготꙑ pl (pěgoty)
- Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: пе́га (péga)
- Macedonian: пега (pega)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пе̏га, пје̏га
- Latin: pȅga, pjȅga
- Slovene: pẹ́ga
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: pieha
- Czech: piha
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): píje
- Czech: piha
- Polish: piega f, pieg m
- Slovak: peha
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: piha
- Lower Sorbian: pěga
- Old Czech: pieha
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “пегий”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “пегий”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 16
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pěga; *pěgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397: “f. ā; m. o (a) ‘freckle’”