Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/tęgъ

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *tęga

Etymology

From the root of *tęťi (“to pull”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ting-, *teng-, from Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ-.

Noun

*tęgъ m

1. traction?
2. weight?

Inflection

Declension of *tęgъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*tęgъ	*tęga	*tędzi
genitive	*tęga	*tęgu	*tęgъ
dative	*tęgu	*tęgoma	*tęgomъ
accusative	*tęgъ	*tęga	*tęgy
instrumental	*tęgъmь, *tęgomь*	*tęgoma	*tęgy
locative	*tędzě	*tęgu	*tędzěxъ
vocative	*tęže	*tęga	*tędzi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: цяга f (cjaha)
  • Russian: тя́га f (tjága)
  • Ukrainian: тяг (tjah)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: тя̀га f (tjàga)
  • Macedonian: тег (teg)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: те̑г

    Latin script: tȇg

  • Slovene: tȇg (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: cąg
  • Old Czech: těh, tah, tieh (later)
    • Czech: tah
    • Knaanic: טֵיג (tég)
  • Old Polish: ciąg
    • Polish: ciąg
    • Silesian: ciōng
  • Polabian: ťǫg
  • Slovak: ťah
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: śěg

    Upper Sorbian: ćah

Further reading

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