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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *orbota + *-ęga.
Noun
*orbotęga f
- hard-working person
Declension
* -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
References
- Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbotędzь/*orbotęgъ/*orbotęga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 123