Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ostroga
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]*ostroga f
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *ostroga (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *ostroga | *ostrodzě | *ostrogy |
genitive | *ostrogy | *ostrogu | *ostrogъ |
dative | *ostrodzě | *ostrogama | *ostrogamъ |
accusative | *ostrogǫ | *ostrodzě | *ostrogy |
instrumental | *ostrogojǫ, *ostrogǫ** | *ostrogama | *ostrogami |
locative | *ostrodzě | *ostrogu | *ostrogasъ, *ostrogaxъ* |
vocative | *ostrogo | *ostrodzě | *ostrogy |
* -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).
** 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
[edit]nouns
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: ostróga (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: ösztöke
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “острога́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress