Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbotęga

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 *orbota +‎ *-ęga.

PIE word
*h₃órbʰos

Noun

*orbotęga f

1. hard-working person

Declension

Declension of *orbotęga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*orbotęga	*orbotędzě	*orbotęgy
genitive	*orbotęgy	*orbotęgu	*orbotęgъ
dative	*orbotędzě	*orbotęgama	*orbotęgamъ
accusative	*orbotęgǫ	*orbotędzě	*orbotęgy
instrumental	*orbotęgojǫ, *orbotęgǫ**	*orbotęgama	*orbotęgami
locative	*orbotędzě	*orbotęgu	*orbotęgasъ, *orbotęgaxъ*
vocative	*orbotęgo	*orbotędzě	*orbotęgy

^* -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).

Related terms

• *orbotędzь
• *orbotęgъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: рабаця́га (rabacjáha)
  • Russian: работя́га (rabotjága)
    • → Bulgarian: работя́га (rabotjága)
  • Ukrainian: роботя́га (robotjáha)

References

• Trubachyov, O., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2005), “*orbotędzь/*orbotęgъ/*orbotęga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 32 (*obžьnъ – *orzbotati), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 123