Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sněgъ

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *snáigas, from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos, with the mobile accent due to Illič-Svityč's law.

Noun

*sně̑gъ m[1][2]

snow

Inflection

Declension of *sně̑gъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*sně̑gъ	*sně̑ga	*sně̑dzi
Accusative	*sně̑gъ	*sně̑ga	*sně̑gy
Genitive	*sně̑ga	*sněgù	*sně̃gъ
Locative	*sně̑dzě	*sněgù	*snědzě̃xъ
Dative	*sně̑gu	*sněgomà	*sněgòmъ
Instrumental	sně̑gъmь, sně̑gomь^*	*sněgomà	*sněgý
Vocative	*sněže	*sně̑ga	*sně̑dzi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: снѣгъ (sněgŭ)
  - Belarusian: снег (snjeh)
  - Russian: снег (sneg)
  - Rusyn: снїг (snjih)
  - Ukrainian: сніг (snih)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: снѣгъ (sněgŭ)
  Glagolitic: ⱄⱀⱑⰳⱏ (sněgŭ)
- Bulgarian: сняг (snjag)
- Macedonian: снег (sneg)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: сне̑г, сније̑г
  Latin: snȇg, snijȇg
- Slovene: snẹ̑g (tonal orthography)
  - (Carniola dialect): snȇi̯k
  - (Cerkno dialect): snī̍x
  - (Gail Valley dialect): snȋəg
  - (Natisone Valley dialect): snȋeg
  - (Prekmurje dialect): sne̍i̯k
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: snieh
  - Czech: sníh
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): sněh
- Kashubian: snieg
- Polabian: sneg
- Old Polish: śnieg
  - Polish: śnieg
- Silesian: śniyg
- Slovak: sneh
- Slovincian: sńė́ǵ
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: sněh
  - Lower Sorbian: sněg

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sně̑gъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457: “m. o (c) ‘snow’”
Olander, Thomas (2001), “sněgъ sněga”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d snow (NA 102; SA 22, 140, 199; OSA 41; PR 137; RPT 98, 103)”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sně̑gъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457: “m. o (c) ‘snow’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001), “sněgъ sněga”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d snow (NA 102; SA 22, 140, 199; OSA 41; PR 137; RPT 98, 103)”