Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bolgo

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

Of uncertain origin. According to Pokorny, the word may have originally meant "light", from a *g-extension of Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”); however, this does not seem to be followed by later linguists. The comparison to Sanskrit बृहस्पति (bṛhaspati), Avestan 𐬠𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬔 (bər^əg), Avestan 𐬠𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬘𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (bər^əjaiieⁱti) is highly speculative.

Noun

*bȏlgo n

1. blessing, good, well-being

Inflection

Declension of *bȏlgo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bȏlgo	*bȏldzě	*bolgà
genitive	*bȏlga	*bolgù	*bõlgъ
dative	*bȏlgu	*bolgomà	*bolgòmъ
accusative	*bȏlgo	*bȏldzě	*bolgà
instrumental	*bȏlgъmь, *bȏlgomь*	*bolgomà	*bolgý
locative	*bȏldzě	*bolgù	*boldzě̃xъ
vocative	*bolgo	*bȏldzě	*bolgà

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

Related terms

• *bolgъ
• *bolžiti
• *bolgyni (“prosperity, welfare”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: болого (bologo)
    • Russian: бо́лого (bólogo) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: благо (blago)

    Glagolitic script: ⰱⰾⰰⰳⱁ (blago)

    • → Old East Slavic: благо (blago)
  • Bulgarian: бла́го (blágo)
  • Macedonian: благо (blago)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бла̑го

    Latin script: blȃgo

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): blᵒȃgo
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): blȃgo
  • Slovene: blagọ̑ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: blaho
    • Czech: blaho
  • Old Polish: błogo
    • Polish: błogo
  • Slovak: blaho

Further reading

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