Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/šęga
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Proto-Slavic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From an earlier *xęga, attested mainly in South Slavic and from there spread into East Slavic. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to tilt, to skew”) or perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ksen- (compare Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape, to mow”), *ksew- (“to hinder”)).
Noun[edit]
*šę̋ga f[1]
Declension[edit]
Declension of *šęga (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *šęga | *šędzě | *šęgy |
genitive | *šęgy | *šęgu | *šęgъ |
dative | *šędzě | *šęgama | *šęgamъ |
accusative | *šęgǫ | *šędzě | *šęgy |
instrumental | *šęgojǫ, *šęgǫ** | *šęgama | *šęgami |
locative | *šędzě | *šęgu | *šęgasъ, *šęgaxъ* |
vocative | *šęgo | *šędzě | *šęgy |
* -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[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- *šujь (“left-handed”)
- *šutъ (“fool, clown”)
- ⇒ Old East Slavic: шутъка (šutŭka, “joke”)
- *xudъ (“small, weak, handicap”)
- *ščęka, *ščeka (“cheekbone”) (possibly of Germanic origin)
Descendants[edit]
- South Slavic:
Further reading[edit]
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шега”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References[edit]
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “šẹ́ga”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *šę̋ga”