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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
By surface analysis, *smagati (“to whip”) + *-a, most likely akin to Lithuanian smõgti (“to strike, to sway”). Further origin unclear.
Has been tenatively compared with Ancient Greek σμήχω (smḗkhō, “to wipe off, to purge”).
Noun
*smàga f
- heat, singe, dryness
Declension
Declension of
*smàga (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
* -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).
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сма́га (smága)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “смага”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “смага”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- “smogti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012