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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sǫprǫgъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Equivalent to *sǫ- + *prǫgъ (“shackle, splice”). Analogous to Latin coniūnx m or f (“spouse”) < coniugō (“to unite, to yoke”).
Noun
*sǫprǫ̀gъ m[1]
- (literally) yokemate, companion
- husband (male spouse)
Declension
Declension of *sǫprǫgъ (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *sǫprǫgъ | *sǫprǫga | *sǫprǫdzi |
Accusative | *sǫprǫgъ | *sǫprǫga | *sǫprǫgy |
Genitive | *sǫprǫga | *sǫprǫgu | *sǫprǫgъ |
Locative | *sǫprǫdzě | *sǫprǫgu | *sǫprǫdzěxъ |
Dative | *sǫprǫgu | *sǫprǫgoma | *sǫprǫgomъ |
Instrumental | *sǫprǫgъmь, *sǫprǫgomь* | *sǫprǫgoma | *sǫprǫgy |
Vocative | *sǫprǫže | *sǫprǫga | *sǫprǫdzi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *sǫprǫga (“wife”)
- *sǫprǫžьskъ (“conjugal”)
Related terms
- *prę(ž)ťi, *pręgati (“to press, to apply force”)
- *prǫžina (“spring (tool)”)
- *prǫglo (“snare”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сꙋпрꙋгъ (suprugŭ)
- Belarusian:
- Russian: супру́г (suprúg)
- Ukrainian: супру́г (suprúh)
- Old East Slavic: сꙋпрꙋгъ (suprugŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: сѫпрѫгъ (sǫprǫgŭ)
- Bulgarian: съпру́г (sǎprúg); съпръ́г (sǎprǎ́g) (dated)
- Macedonian: сопруг (soprug)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су̏пруг
- Latin: sȕprug
- Slovene: soprọ̑g (tonal orthography)
References
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “soprog”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Izhodiščno *sǫprǫ̋gъ”
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “супру́г”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Todorov T., editor (2010), “съпруг”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 672