Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/snaga

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

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Noun

*snaga f

1. success?, progress?, striving?
2. power, strength

Declension

Declension of *snaga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*snaga	*snadzě	*snagy
genitive	*snagy	*snagu	*snagъ
dative	*snadzě	*snagama	*snagamъ
accusative	*snagǫ	*snadzě	*snagy
instrumental	*snagojǫ, *snagǫ**	*snagama	*snagami
locative	*snadzě	*snagu	*snagasъ, *snagaxъ*
vocative	*snago	*snadzě	*snagy

^* -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: снага (snaga)
    • Russian: сна́га (snága)
    • Ukrainian: сна́га (snáha)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: снага (snaga)

    • Bulgarian: снага̀ (snagà)
    • Macedonian: снага (snaga)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сна́га

    Latin script: snága

  • Slovene: snága (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: snaha
  • Polish: snaga
  • Slovak: snaha

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сна́га”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress