Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nebogъ

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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

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Etymology

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A bahuvrihi compound of *ne (not) and an adjective *bogъ (fortunate), but which later shifted in meaning to "god". Compare *ubogъ (poor).

Adjective

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*nebogъ[1]

  1. poor
  2. unfortunate

Declension

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1997), “*nebogъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 24 (*navijati (sę)/*navivati (sę) – *nerodimъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 104

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nebogъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 348:adj. o ‘poor, unfortunate’