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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pěga

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *poyg-.

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit पिङ्गल (piṅgala, “reddish brown, reddish yellow, greenish yellow”), Latin pingō (“I paint”).

Noun

*pě̀ga f[1]

  1. freckle

Inflection
Declension of *pě̀ga (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *pě̀ga *pě̀dzě *pě̀gy
genitive *pě̀gy *pě̀gu *pě̀gъ
dative *pě̀dzě *pě̀gama *pě̀gamъ
accusative *pě̀gǫ *pě̀dzě *pě̀gy
instrumental *pě̀gojǫ, *pě̀gǭ** *pě̀gama *pě̀gamī
locative *pě̀dzě *pě̀gu *pě̀gasъ, *pě̀gaxъ*
vocative *pě̀go *pě̀dzě *pě̀gy
* -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).

Alternative forms
  • *pě̀gъ
  • *pěgavъ

Descendants
  • East Slavic: —
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: пѣготꙑ pl (pěgoty)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: пе́га (péga)
    • Macedonian: пега (pega)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пе̏га, пје̏га
      Latin: pȅga, pjȅga
    • Slovene: pẹ́ga
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: pieha
      • Czech: piha
        • Bohemian (Chod dialect): píje
    • Polish: piega f, pieg m
    • Slovak: peha
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: piha
      • Lower Sorbian: pěga

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пегий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “пегий”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 16

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pěga; *pěgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 397: “f. ā; m. o (a) ‘freckle’”
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