Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ogarь

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

Possibly from a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *eker (“hunting dog”). Compare Southern Altai (Teleut dialect) [script needed] (eŋer, “hunting dog”), Chuvash акар (ak̬ar, “greyhound”) and Ossetian егар (egar, “greyhound”), also from Turkic.

Noun

*ogarь m

1. sighthound

Declension

Declension of *ogarь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ogarь	*ogari	*ogarьje, *ogaře*
genitive	*ogari	*ogarьju, *ogařu*	*ogarьjь, *ogari*
dative	*ogari	*ogarьma	*ogarьmъ
accusative	*ogarь	*ogari	*ogari
instrumental	*ogarьmь	*ogarьma	*ogarьmi
locative	*ogari	*ogarьju, *ogařu*	*ogarьxъ
vocative	*ogari	*ogari	*ogarьje, *ogaře*

^* 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

• Church Slavonic: огаръ (ogarŭ) (Serbian/Croatian)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: огаръ (ogarŭ, “kind of a ship”) (possibly)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: огарь (ogarĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱁⰳⰰⱃⱐ (ogarĭ)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̏гар

    Latin script: ȍgar

  • Slovene: ogar
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ohař
  • Kashubian: ògarz
  • Polish: ogar
  • Slovak: ohar
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: hogoŕ

• → Old Hungarian: agar
  • Hungarian: agár

References

• André Szabolcs Szelp, 2010, Zur Frage eines „awarischen“ Stratums des ungarischen Wortschatzes, p. 121
• Marek Stachowski, Eugen Helimskis Materialien zur Erforschung der ältesten slawisch-ungarischen Sprachkontakte, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 14 (2009): 35–107 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego: Kraków, page 41
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “огар”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Abajev, V. I. (1958) “egar”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 411