Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oměgъ

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

A relationship to Proto-Slavic *migati (“to blink”) via -ei-/-oi- ablaut because of the phantasms one gets when intaking the plants remains frequently considered. Compare analogues like *omanъ (“elecampane”) and *odolěnъ (“valerian”). Miklosich reconstructs *omęgъ on the basis of frequent nasalized forms in Old Polish and Romanian omeág, but these forms seem secondary.

Noun

*oměgъ m

1. monkshood (Aconitum spp.)
2. hemlock (Conium and Cicuta spp.)

Declension

Declension of *oměgъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*oměgъ	*oměga	*omědzi
genitive	*oměga	*oměgu	*oměgъ
dative	*oměgu	*oměgoma	*oměgomъ
accusative	*oměgъ	*oměga	*oměgy
instrumental	*oměgъmь, *oměgomь*	*oměgoma	*oměgy
locative	*omědzě	*oměgu	*omědzěxъ
vocative	*oměže	*oměga	*omědzi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: о́мег (ómjeh), во́мег (vómjeh) and во́бмег (vóbmjeh), and аме́жнік (amjéžnik)
  • Russian: оме́г (omég), dialectally also о́мег (ómeg), also оме́га (oméga), оме́жник (oméžnik), and even rarer омя́г (omjág) and омя́к (omják) and о́мик (ómik)
  • Ukrainian: оме́г (oméh), also оме́га (oméha) (but this means Rhododendron spp.), оме́жник (oméžnyk)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: омѣгъ (oměgŭ)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (rare Western or a Šulekism)

    Latin script: omig, omik

    Cyrillic script: омиг, омик

  • Slovene: omèj, also omeg, omega
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: oměj, voměj (archaic)
  • Polish: omieg, dialectally omiag, omięg, omiąg
  • Slovak: omich, omích

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: omeág

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2001), “*obměg”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 28 (*oblězti – *obpovědanьje), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 58
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “оме́г”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Miklosich, Franz (1886) “omengŭ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 221b