Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/struga

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

(deprecated template usage)

From *strujiti (“to stream, to spout”) +‎ *-ga, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *srew-.

Compare Lithuanian straũga, struga, strūga, Latvian strũgla.

Noun

*struga f

1. wave front, current

Declension

Declension of *struga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*struga	*strudzě	*strugy
genitive	*strugy	*strugu	*strugъ
dative	*strudzě	*strugama	*strugamъ
accusative	*strugǫ	*strudzě	*strugy
instrumental	*strugojǫ, *strugǫ**	*strugama	*strugami
locative	*strudzě	*strugu	*strugasъ, *strugaxъ*
vocative	*strugo	*strudzě	*strugy

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic: струга (struga)
  • Russian: стру́га (strúga)
  • Ukrainian: стру́га (strúha)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: строуга (struga)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Serbo-Croatian: strȕga
  • Slovene: strúga
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: strouha
  • Polish: struga
  • Slovak: struha
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: truha
    • Lower Sorbian: tšuga

Further reading

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