Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/telěga

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

*telěga f

1. cart

Declension

Declension of *telěga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*telěga	*telědzě	*telěgy
genitive	*telěgy	*telěgu	*telěgъ
dative	*telědzě	*telěgama	*telěgamъ
accusative	*telěgǫ	*telědzě	*telěgy
instrumental	*telěgojǫ, *telěgǫ**	*telěgama	*telěgami
locative	*telědzě	*telěgu	*telěgasъ, *telěgaxъ*
vocative	*telěgo	*telědzě	*telěgy

^* -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: телѣга (telěga)
    • Old Ruthenian: телѣга (telěha)
      • Ukrainian: телíга (telíha)
      • → Old Polish: telega, talaga, talega, telaga, teliga
        • Polish: telega
    • Russian: теле́га (teléga)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⱅⰵⰾⱑⰳⰰ (telěga)

    Old Cyrillic script: телѣга (telěga)

    • Bulgarian: талѝга (talìga)
  • Serbo-Croatian: pl

    Cyrillic script: та̀љиге

    Latin script: tàljige

  • Slovene: talíga, tolíga (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: taliha

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: teleagă

Further reading

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