Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rogъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *rágas, with the mobile accent due to Illič-Svityč's law.

Noun

*rȍgъ m

1. horn

Inflection

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

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*rȍgъ	*rȍga	*rȍdzi
Accusative	*rȍgъ	*rȍga	*rȍgy
Genitive	*rȍga	*rogù	*rògъ
Locative	*rȍdzě	*rogù	*rodzě̃xъ
Dative	*rȍgu	*rogomà	*rogòmъ
Instrumental	*rȍgъmь, *rȍgomь*	*rogomà	*rogý
Vocative	*rože	*rȍga	*rȍdzi

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

Derived terms

• *rogozъ (“reed, rush”)
• *rogačь (“horned animal, stag”)
• *rogatъ (“horned”)
• *rožьcь (“small horn”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рогъ (rogŭ)
    • Belarusian: рог (roh)
    • Russian: рог (rog)
    • Ukrainian: ріг (rih)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: рогъ (rogŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱃⱁⰳⱏ (rogŭ)

  • Bulgarian: рог (rog)
  • Macedonian: рог (rog)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ро̑г

    Latin: rȏg

    • Chakavian (Novi): rȏg
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): rᵘȏh
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): rȏg
  • Slovene: róg (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: roh
  • Kashubian: róg
  • Polabian: rüg
  • Polish: róg
  • Slovak: roh
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: rog
    • Upper Sorbian: róh
• → Yiddish: ראָג‎ (rog), ראָגל‎ (rogl)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) , “рог”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubačóv, Moscow: Progress