Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veriga

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

By surface analysis, *verti (“to thread”) +‎ *-iga.

Noun

*veriga f

1. chain, series

Declension

Declension of *veriga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*veriga	*veridzě	*verigy
genitive	*verigy	*verigu	*verigъ
dative	*veridzě	*verigama	*verigamъ
accusative	*verigǫ	*veridzě	*verigy
instrumental	*verigojǫ, *verigǫ**	*verigama	*verigami
locative	*veridzě	*verigu	*verigasъ, *verigaxъ*
vocative	*verigo	*veridzě	*verigy

^* -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).

Related terms

• *verěja
• *vernь
• *vьrvь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: верига (veriga)
    • Russian: вери́га (veríga)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: верига (veriga)

    Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱃⰻⰳⰰ (veriga)

  • Bulgarian: вери́га (veríga)
  • Macedonian: ве́рига (vériga)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: вѐрига

    Latin script: vèriga

  • Slovene: veríga (tonal orthography)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: verigë
  • → Romanian: verigă

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “верига”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “вериги”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 143
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “верига”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 135