Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/noga

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *nogā́ˀ (“claw, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nṓgʰs.

Noun

*nogà f

1. foot, leg

   Synonym: *korkъ

Declension

Declension of *nogà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*nogà	*nȍdzě	*nȍgy
genitive	*nogý	*nogù	*nògъ
dative	*nodzě̀	*nogàma	*nogàmъ
accusative	*nȍgǫ	*nȍdzě	*nȍgy
instrumental	*nogojǫ́	*nogàma	*nogàmi
locative	*nȍdzě	*nogù	*nogàsъ, *nogàxъ*
vocative	*nogo	*nȍdzě	*nȍgy

^* -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.

Related terms

• *nogъtь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: нага́ (nahá)
  • Russian: нога́ (nogá)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: но́га (nóha)
  • Ukrainian: нога́ (nohá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: нога (noga)
  • Bulgarian: но́га (nóga)
  • Macedonian: но́га (nóga)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: но̀га

    Serbo-Croatian: nòga

    • Slavomolisano: noga

  • Slovene: nóga (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: noha
  • Polabian: nügă
  • Polish: noga
  • Slovak: noha
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: noga
    • Upper Sorbian: noha

Further reading

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