Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫgořь

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

*ǫgořь

Alternative reconstructions

*ǫgъřь, *ǫgřь

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *angurjas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ-ur-yos (“snake-like, serpentine > eel”), enlargement of *h₂engʷʰ- (see *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”)).

Cognate with Old Prussian angurgis, Lithuanian ungurỹs, Finnish ankerias (borrowed from Baltic), Ancient Greek ἔγχελυς (énkhelus), Latin anguilla. Related to *ǫžь (“snake”) and *ežь (“hedgehog”, originally a “snake-eater”).

Noun

*ǫgořь m[1][2][3]

eel

Inflection

Declension of *ǫgořь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ǫgořь	*ǫgoři	ǫgořьje, ǫgoře^*
genitive	*ǫgoři	ǫgořьju, ǫgořu^*	ǫgořьjь, ǫgoři^*
dative	*ǫgoři	*ǫgořьma	*ǫgořьmъ
accusative	*ǫgořь	*ǫgoři	*ǫgoři
instrumental	*ǫgořьmь	*ǫgořьma	*ǫgořьmi
locative	*ǫgoři	ǫgořьju, ǫgořu^*	*ǫgořьxъ
vocative	*ǫgoři	*ǫgoři	ǫgořьje, ǫgoře^*

^* 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

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *ѫгорь (*ǫgorĭ), *ѫгърь (*ǫgŭrĭ)
  - Middle Russian: угорь (ugorʹ), угрь (ugrʹ)
    - Russian: у́горь (úgorʹ); угрь (ugrʹ), уго́р (ugór), угр (ugr) (dialectal)
  - Old Ruthenian: угоръ (uhor), вугоръ (vuhor)
    - Belarusian: вуго́р (vuhór); уго́р (uhór) (dialectal)
    - Ukrainian: вуго́р (vuhór); ву́гор (vúhor), у́гор (úhor) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- ⇒ Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: ѫгорищь (ǫgorištĭ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: у̀гор
  
  Latin script: ùgor
- Slovene: ogọ̑r, ọ̑gor (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: úhoř
  - Czech: úhoř
- Kashubian: wãgòrz
- Polabian: vǫďör
- Old Polish: węgorz
  - Polish: węgorz, węgórz (dialectal)
    - → Yiddish: ווענגער (venger)
- Slovak: úhor
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: hugoŕ, wugoŕ
  - Upper Sorbian: wuhoŕ

References

Zhuravlyov, A. F., Varbot, Zh. Zh., editors (2016), “*ǫgorь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 40 (*ǫborъkъ – *pakъla), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 33
Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ǫgorь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 386: “m. jo ‘eel’”
Snoj, Marko (2016) “ogọ́r”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si