Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bergъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Thought to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰos, from the root *bʰerǵʰ-. However, the *g found in Slavic is not the expected outcome of PIE *ǵʰ, which would be *z. Therefore, the word may have been borrowed from another language, such as Germanic or a Venetic-Illyrian language.
Noun
Inflection
Though it is traditionally reconstructed as a hard o-stem, Pronk-Tiethoff suggests that *bergъ was probably a u-stem instead, noting its accentuation and its reflexes found in Russian, e.g. the “second locative” na beregú and the adjective formation beregovój.
Declension of *bȇrgъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *bȇrgъ | *bȇrga | *bȇrdzi |
genitive | *bȇrga | *bergù | *bẽrgъ |
dative | *bȇrgu | *bergomà | *bergòmъ |
accusative | *bȇrgъ | *bȇrga | *bȇrgy |
instrumental | *bȇrgъmь, *bȇrgomь* | *bergomà | *bergý |
locative | *bȇrdzě | *bergù | *berdzě̃xъ |
vocative | *berže | *bȇrga | *bȇrdzi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Declension of *bȇrgъ (u-stem, accent paradigm c)
See also
Derived terms
- *bergatъ
- *bergovitъ
- *bergovъ
- *bergulja / *bergulica (“coastal swallow”)
- *bergyni (“coastal fairy, mermaid”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Bulgarian: бряг (brjag)
- Macedonian: брег (breg)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: brẹ̑g (tonal orthography)
- Non-Slavic:
- → Albanian: breg
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “берег”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bȇrgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 37: “m. o (c) ‘bank’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “bergъ -a”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “d (OSA 139f.; PR 137)”
Categories:
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Slavic terms borrowed from Germanic languages
- Proto-Slavic terms derived from Germanic languages
- Proto-Slavic lemmas
- Proto-Slavic nouns
- Proto-Slavic masculine nouns
- sla-pro:Landforms
- Proto-Slavic hard o-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic hard masculine o-stem nouns
- Proto-Slavic nominals with accent paradigm c
- Proto-Slavic u-stem nouns