Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pьrga

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

After Snoj, from *pьržiti (“to fry, to roast”).

Vasmer connected it with *prygati (“to jump”), Lithuanian proga (“sprout”), Sanskrit पराग (parāga, “pollen”) based on the meaning “beebread”, which however, more parsimoniously, can be presumed transferred from a human meal to the animal world.

Noun

*pьrga f

1. roasted victuals ground and pulped together

Inflection

Declension of *pьrga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pьrga	*pьrdzě	*pьrgy
genitive	*pьrgy	*pьrgu	*pьrgъ
dative	*pьrdzě	*pьrgama	*pьrgamъ
accusative	*pьrgǫ	*pьrdzě	*pьrgy
instrumental	*pьrgojǫ, *pьrgǫ**	*pьrgama	*pьrgami
locative	*pьrdzě	*pьrgu	*pьrgasъ, *pьrgaxъ*
vocative	*pьrgo	*pьrdzě	*pьrgy

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пьрга (pĭrga)
    • Belarusian: пярга́ (pjarhá)
    • Russian: перга́ (pergá)
      • →? Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: перга

        Latin script: perga

    • Ukrainian: перга́ (perhá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: пръга (prŭga)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пр̏га, пр́га

    Latin script: pȑga, pŕga

  • Slovene: pŕga
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: prha
  • Polish: pierzga
  • Slovak: perga

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: pârgă

References

• Snoj, Marko (2016) “pŕga”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “перга́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress