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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bigrъ

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

Mostly limited to South Slavic. Mladenov, Skok compare it with Albanian bigorr (“type of carstic formation”) and consider Pre-Slavic origin, possibly from a paleo-Balkan substrate. Compare futher Lithuanian bìgas (“tiny, crumbled”), baikštas (“timid”).

Likely unrelated to dialectal Russian би́гать (bígatʹ, “to dry out”).

Noun

*bigrъ m

  1. limescale, chalk (calcareous material)

Declension
Declension of *bigrъ (hard o-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *bigrъ *bigra *bigri
Accusative *bigrъ *bigra *bigry
Genitive *bigra *bigru *bigrъ
Locative *bigrě *bigru *bigrěxъ
Dative *bigru *bigroma *bigromъ
Instrumental *bigrъmь, *bigromь* *bigroma *bigry
Vocative *bigre *bigra *bigri
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: би́гор (bígor)
    • Macedonian: бигор (bigor)
    • Serbo-Croatian: би̏гар
      • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: Бигренац, Бигреница (toponyms in Eastern Serbia)
      • → Romanian: Bigăr (in toponyms)
        • → Slovak: bigar (via Romanian)

Further reading
  • Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “бигор”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 46
  • Skok, Petar (1971) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 147
  • Anikin, A. E. (2009), “бигать”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 3 (бе – болдыхать), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 175
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