Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oměgъ

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

A relationship to Proto-Slavic *migati (“to blink”) via -ei-/-oi- ablaut because of the phantasms one gets when intaking the plants remains frequently considered. Compare analogues like *omanъ (“elecampane”) and *odolěnъ (“valerian”). Miklosich reconstructs *omęgъ on the basis of frequent nasalized forms in Old Polish and Romanian omeág, but these forms seem secondary.

Noun

*oměgъ m

monkshood (Aconitum spp.)
hemlock (Conium and Cicuta spp.)

Declension

Declension of *oměgъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*oměgъ	*oměga	*omědzi
Accusative	*oměgъ	*oměga	*oměgy
Genitive	*oměga	*oměgu	*oměgъ
Locative	*omědzě	*oměgu	*omědzěxъ
Dative	*oměgu	*oměgoma	*oměgomъ
Instrumental	oměgъmь, oměgomь^*	*oměgoma	*oměgy
Vocative	*oměže	*oměga	*omědzi

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: о́мег (ómjeh), во́мег (vómjeh) and во́бмег (vóbmjeh), and аме́жнік (amjéžnik)
- Russian: оме́г (omég), dialectally also о́мег (ómeg), also оме́га (oméga), оме́жник (oméžnik), and even rarer омя́г (omjág) and омя́к (omják) and о́мик (ómik)
- Ukrainian: оме́г (oméh), also оме́га (oméha) (but this means Rhododendron spp.), оме́жник (oméžnyk)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: омѣгъ (oměgŭ)
- Serbo-Croatian: (rare Western or a Šulekism)
  Latin script: omig, omik
  
  Cyrillic script: омиг, омик
- Slovene: omèj, also omeg, omega
West Slavic:
- Czech: oměj, voměj
- Polish: omieg, dialectally omiag, omięg, omiąg
- Slovak: omich, omích

Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: omeág

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2001), “*obměg”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 28 (*oblězti – *obpovědanьje), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 58
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “оме́г”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
Miklosich, Franz (1886), “omengŭ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 221b

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