Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolgo

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.

Of uncertain origin. According to Pokorny, the word may have originally meant "light", from a *g-extension of Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”); however, this does not seem to be followed by later linguists. The comparison to Sanskrit बृहस्पति (bṛhaspati), Avestan 𐬠𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬔 (bər^əg), Avestan 𐬠𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬘𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (bər^əjaiieⁱti) is highly speculative.

*bȏlgo n

1. blessing, good, well-being

• *bolgъ
• *bolžiti
• *bolgyni (“prosperity, welfare”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: болого (bologo)
    • Russian: бо́лого (bólogo) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: благо (blago)

    Glagolitic script: ⰱⰾⰰⰳⱁ (blago)

    • → Old East Slavic: благо (blago)
  • Bulgarian: бла́го (blágo)
  • Macedonian: благо (blago)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бла̑го

    Latin script: blȃgo

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): blᵒȃgo
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): blȃgo
  • Slovene: blagọ̑ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: blaho
    • Czech: blaho
  • Old Polish: błogo
    • Polish: błogo
  • Slovak: blaho

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бо́лого”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress