Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/rágas

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This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

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Etymology

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Fick and Prellwitz derived it from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (to begin, rule) (compare Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō, I rule, govern, begin)), but Boisacq regards the connection as dubious.[1]

Sometimes compared to Georgian რქა (rka), Laz ქრა (kra), Mingrelian რქა (rka).[2]

Noun

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*rágas m[3][4][5][6]

  1. horn

Inflection

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Declension of *rágas (o-stem, fixed accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *rágas *rágōˀ *rágai(ˀ)
Accusative *rágan *rágōˀ *rágō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *rágā *rágāu(ˀ) *rágōn
Locative *rágai *rágāu(ˀ) *rágaišu
Dative *rágōi *rágamā(ˀ) *rágamas
Instrumental *rágōˀ *rágamāˀ *rágōis
Vocative *ráge *rágōˀ *rágai(ˀ)

Descendants

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  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: rags
    • Lithuanian: rãgas
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *rȍgъ (see there for further descendants)

References

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  1. ^ Chatterji, S. K. (1926). The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language. India: Calcutta University Press, p. 1041
  2. ^ Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 776.
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rȏgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438:*rogos
  4. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “ragas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 374:*rógos
  5. ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 162:*ra̍gas
  6. ^ Nikolajev, S. L. (2012) “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura[1] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 133