Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ostroga

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

• *ostrogъ

Etymology

From *ostrъ +‎ *-oga.

Noun

*ostroga f

1. goad?, spur?

   Synonym: *bodьcь

Inflection

Declension of *ostroga (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ostroga	*ostrodzě	*ostrogy
genitive	*ostrogy	*ostrogu	*ostrogъ
dative	*ostrodzě	*ostrogama	*ostrogamъ
accusative	*ostrogǫ	*ostrodzě	*ostrogy
instrumental	*ostrogojǫ, *ostrogǫ**	*ostrogama	*ostrogami
locative	*ostrodzě	*ostrogu	*ostrogasъ, *ostrogaxъ*
vocative	*ostrogo	*ostrodzě	*ostrogy

^* -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).

Related terms

nouns

• *esetь
• *os(ь)la
• *ostь
• *ostьnъ

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old East Slavic: острогатъ (ostrogatŭ)
  • Russian: остро́г (ostróg), острога́ (ostrogá), остро́га (ostróga) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: остро́га (ostróha)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̏струга

    Latin script: ȍstruga

  • Slovene: ostróga (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ostroh, ostruha
  • Polabian: våstrügă
  • Old Polish: ostroga
    • Polish: ostroga
  • Old Slovak: ostroha
    • Slovak: ostroh, ostroha
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: wótšog, wótšoga

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: ösztöke

Further reading

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