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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/volga

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wálˀgāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *wolg-eh₂, from *welg- (“moist; wet”). Cognate with Latvian pa-val̃ga, Lithuanian pa-valgà, Old Prussian welgen, Proto-Germanic *wulkaną.

Noun

*vòlga f[1][2][3]

  1. moisture

Inflection
Declension of *vòlga (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *vòlga *vòldzě *vòlgy
Accusative *vòlgǫ *vòldzě *vòlgy
Genitive *vòlgy *vòlgu *vòlgъ
Locative *vòldzě *vòlgu *vòlgasъ, *vòlgaxъ*
Dative *vòldzě *vòlgama *vòlgamъ
Instrumental *vòlgojǫ, *vòlgǭ** *vòlgama *vòlgamī
Vocative *vòlgo *vòldzě *vòlgy
* -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).

Derived terms
  • *volžiti
  • *obolžiti

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian:
    • Russian: воло́га (vológa) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: воло́га (volóha)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: vláha
      • Czech: vláha
        • Bohemian (Chod dialect): vláha
    • Slovak: vlaha
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: włoha

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vòlga”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 524: “f. ā (a) ‘moisture, liquid food’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “volga”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “vlága”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *vőlga”
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