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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lǫgъ

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 *lunˀgas, from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ-. Cognate with Old Prussian Langa (“name of a brook”), Langodis (“name of a swamp”).

Noun

*lǫ̑gъ m[1][2]

  1. depression (in land), lowland, meadow, valley
    Synonym: *lǭkà

Declension
Declension of *lǫ̑gъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *lǫ̑gъ *lǫ̑ga *lǫ̑dzi
genitive *lǫ̑ga *lǫgù *lǫ̃gъ
dative *lǫ̑gu *lǫgomà *lǫgòmъ
accusative *lǫ̑gъ *lǫ̑ga *lǫ̑gy
instrumental *lǫ̑gъmь, *lǫ̑gomь* *lǫgomà *lǫgý
locative *lǫ̑dzě *lǫgù *lǫdzě̃xъ
vocative *lǫže *lǫ̑ga *lǫ̑dzi
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: луг (lug)
    • Ukrainian: луг (luh)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: лѫгъ (lǫgŭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⰾⱘⰳⱏ (lǫgŭ)
    • Bulgarian: лъг (lǎg)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: лу̑г
      Latin script: lȗg
    • Slovene: lọ̑g (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
  • Non-Slavic:
    • → German: Luch
    • → Byzantine Greek: λόγγος (lóngos)
      • Greek: λόγγος (lóngos)

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

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lǫ̑gъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 288: “m. o (c) ‘depression’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “lǫgъ lǫga”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (NA 134, 139, 143; SA 26f., 31, 33; PR 137); d (RPT 102) meadow, underbrush”
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