търгъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tъrgъ.

Pronunciation

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊrɡʊ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊrɡʊ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔrɡ/

Noun

търгъ (tŭrgŭ) m

1. trade, trading, commerce
2. (trade) square

Descendants

• Belarusian: торг (torh)
• Russian: торг (torg)
• Ukrainian: торг (torh)
• → Estonian: turg
• → Finnish: turku
• →? Ingrian: turu
• → Latvian: tirgus
• → Lithuanian: tur̃gus
• → Old Norse: torg (“market”)
  • Danish: torv
  • Faroese: torg
  • Icelandic: torg
  • Norwegian: torg
  • Swedish: torg
  • → Finnish: tori

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “торг”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “торг”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 251