Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wargás

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This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

Disputed; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European:

Noun

*wargás m[5]

  1. foe, enemy

Inflection

Declension of *wargás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *wargás *wárgōˀ *wargái(ˀ)
Accusative *wárgan *wárgōˀ *wárgō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *wárgā *wargā́u(ˀ) *wargṓn
Locative *wárgai *wargā́u(ˀ) *wargáišu
Dative *wárgōi *wargámā(ˀ) *wargámas
Instrumental *wárgōˀ *wargámāˀ *wargṓis
Vocative *wárge *wárgōˀ *wargái(ˀ)

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: vā̀rgs
    • Lithuanian: var̃gas, vargùs
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *vȏrgъ (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 277
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vorgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 527:BSl. *worʔgós
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vargus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489:BSL *worʔgos
  4. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*warki-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 574-575
  5. ^ Nikolajev, S. L. (2012) “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 89