Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prǫga

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 *prǫgati +‎ *-a.

Noun

*prǫga f

1. strip, stripe, streak

   Synonyms: *polsa, *smuga

Inflection

Declension of *prǫga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*prǫga	*prǫdzě	*prǫgy
genitive	*prǫgy	*prǫgu	*prǫgъ
dative	*prǫdzě	*prǫgama	*prǫgamъ
accusative	*prǫgǫ	*prǫdzě	*prǫgy
instrumental	*prǫgojǫ, *prǫgǫ**	*prǫgama	*prǫgami
locative	*prǫdzě	*prǫgu	*prǫgasъ, *prǫgaxъ*
vocative	*prǫgo	*prǫdzě	*prǫgy

^* -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).

Related terms

adjective

• *prǫgavъ

 

streaky, streaked, stripy, striped

nouns

• *pręgъ
• *prǫglo
• *prǫgъ
• *prǫžina

 

verbs

• *pręťi
• *prǫžiti

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: пру́га (prúga)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пру́га

    Latin script: prúga

  • Slovene: próga (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: prouha
  • Old Polish: prąga
    • Polish: pręga
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: рšugа

    Upper Sorbian: pruha

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пру́га”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress