Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/oměgъ

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

A relationship to Proto-Slavic *migati (“to blink”) via -ei-/-oi- ablaut because of the phantasms one gets when intaking the plants remains frequently considered. Compare analogues like *omanъ (“elecampane”) and *odolěnъ (“valerian”). Miklosich reconstructs *omęgъ on the basis of frequent nasalized forms in Old Polish and Romanian omeág, but these forms seem secondary.

Noun

*oměgъ m

  1. monkshood (Aconitum spp.)
  2. hemlock (Conium and Cicuta spp.)

Declension

Declension of *oměgъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *oměgъ *oměga *omědzi
genitive *oměga *oměgu *oměgъ
dative *oměgu *oměgoma *oměgomъ
accusative *oměgъ *oměga *oměgy
instrumental *oměgъmь, *oměgomь* *oměgoma *oměgy
locative *omědzě *oměgu *omědzěxъ
vocative *oměže *oměga *omědzi

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

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: о́мег (ómjeh), во́мег (vómjeh) and во́бмег (vóbmjeh), and аме́жнік (amjéžnik)
    • Russian: оме́г (omég), dialectally also о́мег (ómeg), also оме́га (oméga), оме́жник (oméžnik), and even rarer омя́г (omjág) and омя́к (omják) and о́мик (ómik)
    • Ukrainian: оме́г (oméh), also оме́га (oméha) (but this means Rhododendron spp.), оме́жник (oméžnyk)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: омѣгъ (oměgŭ)
    • Serbo-Croatian: (rare Western or a Šulekism)
      Latin script: omig, omik
      Cyrillic script: омиг, омик
    • Slovene: omèj, also omeg, omega
  • West Slavic:
  • Non-Slavic:
    • → Romanian: omeág

References

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (2001), “*obměg”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 28 (*oblězti – *obpovědanьje), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 58
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “оме́г”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
  • Miklosich, Franz (1886) “omengŭ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 221b
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