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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Plural of obsolete *nadorga, related to *na- + *dьrgati (“to pull, to tug”).
Noun
*nadorgy f pl
- (plural only) pants, trousers
Inflection
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: надрагꙑ pl (nadragy)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “надраги”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress