Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prisęga

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

Deverbal from *prisęťi (“to swear an oath”), from *pri- +‎ *sęťi (“to reach for”).

Noun

*prisę̀ga f^[1]

oath, vow

Inflection

Declension of *prisę̀ga (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*prisę̀ga	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gy
genitive	*prisę̀gy	*prisę̀gu	*prisę̀gъ
dative	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gama	*prisę̀gamъ
accusative	*prisę̀gǫ	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gy
instrumental	prisę̀gojǫ, prisę̀gǭ^**	*prisę̀gama	*prisę̀gamī
locative	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gu	prisę̀gasъ, prisę̀gaxъ^*
vocative	*prisę̀go	*prisę̀dzě	*prisę̀gy

^* -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: прыся́га (prysjáha)
- Russian: прися́га (prisjága)
- Ukrainian: прися́га (prysjáha)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: присѧга (prisęga)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: при̏сега
  
  Latin script: prȉsega
- Slovene: prisẹ̑ga (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: přísaha
- Polish: przysięga
- Slovak: prísaha
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: pśisega
  - Upper Sorbian: přisaha

References

^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “prisẹ̑ga”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*prisę̋ga”