Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rarogъ

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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.

Proto-Slavic

*rarogъ

Etymology

Usually believed to be from *rarъ (noise) or *rarati (to make noise) + *-ogъ. If not, from *rajati (to make noise) + *-ogъ. The name refers to the sounds the bird makes. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rā-, compare Lithuanian rojóti (to crow), Proto-Germanic *rairāną (to roar).

Since of limited geography of the word (near-Carpathian), it might be post-Proto-Slavic borrowing from Old Hungarian, compare Hungarian rá- (on, onto), ráró (saker), rárohan (to attack from air).

Since some descendants (Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian (from Polish)), or their derivatives, mean “devil”, “demon”, “gnome” etc., some scholars tried to connect the word with *Sъvarogъ (Svarog (Slavic god of fire)), with *rarogъ being Svarog's bird demonized durning Christianization. However, both words have different etymologies, and the oldest attestations of these words (Old Czech, Old Polish, Old Ruthenian) mean only “saker”.

Noun

*rarogъ m

  1. saker (any bird of the species Falco cherrug)
verbs

Declension

Declension of *rarogъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *rarogъ *raroga *rarodzi
genitive *raroga *rarogu *rarogъ
dative *rarogu *rarogoma *rarogomъ
accusative *rarogъ *raroga *rarogy
instrumental *rarogъmь, *rarogomь* *rarogoma *rarogy
locative *rarodzě *rarogu *rarodzěxъ
vocative *rarože *raroga *rarodzi

* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “raróg”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, page 18
  2. ^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “Suf. -ogъ”, in Słownik prasłowiański (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 67

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