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. 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

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1973) “угорь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 4 (Т – Ящур), Moscow: Progress, page 146