Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orǫga

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

Alternative forms

*orǫžь

Etymology

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Cognate with Lithuanian aprangà (“outfit, clothes, clothing”), apreñgti, reñgti, išreñgti

Noun

*orǫga f

clothes, clothing
weapon

Inflection

Declension of *orǫga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*orǫga	*orǫdzě	*orǫgy
genitive	*orǫgy	*orǫgu	*orǫgъ
dative	*orǫdzě	*orǫgama	*orǫgamъ
accusative	*orǫgǫ	*orǫdzě	*orǫgy
instrumental	orǫgojǫ, orǫgǫ^**	*orǫgama	*orǫgami
locative	*orǫdzě	*orǫgu	orǫgasъ, orǫgaxъ^*
vocative	*orǫgo	*orǫdzě	*orǫgy

^* -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

*orǫžьje

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: оружь (oružĭ) (?)
  - Russian: обру́га (obrúga), обру́жа (obrúža) (?)
West Slavic:
- Czech: oruž f (?)
- Polish: oręż m
- Slovak: rúcho n

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2002), “*obrǫga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 29 (*obpovědati – *obsojьnica), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 121
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2002), “*obrǫžь/*obrǫža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 29 (*obpovědati – *obsojьnica), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 121
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “оружие”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “оружие”, 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 606
Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “оружие”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “оружь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 710