Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/žigъ

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.

Action/result noun from Proto-Slavic *žьgati (“to burn, to brand”) via enlongation of the root vowel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Akin to Proto-Celtic *degʷis (“flame, blaze”), Lithuanian dė̃gis (“burn scar”).

*žigъ m

1. brand, burn mark
2. residual heat, incandescence

• *žegti (“to burn”)
• *žega (“heat”)
• *žežьkъ (“hot, incandescent”)

• *žižьka (“calorie, unit of heat”)
• *žigъlъ (“pin, dart for branding”)
• *zigovati (“to brand, to leave a burn mark”)

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Russian: вы́жиг (výžig)
    • ⇒ Russian: вы́жига (výžiga, “wastrel”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: жи́г (žíg)
  • Macedonian: жиг (žig)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: жи̑г

    Latin script: žȋg

  • Slovene: žȋg
• Non-Slavic:
  • Romanian: jeg
  • Albanian: zhig

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “жиг”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 542
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “žȋg”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si