Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bagra

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

Noun

*bagra f^[1]^[2]

alternative form of *bagrъ (“purple”)

Declension

Declension of *bagra (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bagra	*bagrě	*bagry
genitive	*bagry	*bagru	*bagrъ
dative	*bagrě	*bagrama	*bagramъ
accusative	*bagrǫ	*bagrě	*bagry
instrumental	bagrojǫ, bagrǫ^**	*bagrama	*bagrami
locative	*bagrě	*bagru	bagrasъ, bagraxъ^*
vocative	*bagro	*bagrě	*bagry

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ба́гра (báhra, “purple paint”) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ба́гра (bágra, “color”)
- Macedonian: багра (bagra, “purple”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: bàgra (“red paint, obtained from pine bark; purple”)
  
  Cyrillic script: ба̀гра

References

^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “bagrъ 1”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 178
^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bag(ъ)rъ I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 130

[1] Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “bagrъ 1”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 178

[2] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*bag(ъ)rъ I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 130

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