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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dьrgati

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 *dirˀg-, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥Hgʰ, from the root *derHgʰ- (given as *derHǵʰ- in Derksen, but this is likely a typo). Cognate with Lithuanian dìrginti (to irritate) (3sg. dìrgina, 3sg. past dìrgino), dìrgti (to become weak) (3sg. dìrgsta, 3sg. past dìrgo), Latvian dragât (to pull, to tear) (1sg. dragãju), derglît (to tear, to split) (1sg. derglĩju). Also cognate with Old English tiergan (to irritate, to annoy), German zergen (to tease) (dialectal), Dutch tergen (to provoke).

Verb

*dьrgati impf [1]

  1. to comb (flax)? to rub? to scratch? to pull?

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: дръгати (drŭgati, to pull, to tear) (literary, a Church Slavonicism)
    • Belarusian: до́ргаць (dórgacʹ, to pull, to twitch)
    • Russian: дёргать (djórgatʹ, to pull, to tug), 1sg. дёргаю (djórgaju)
    • Ukrainian: де́ргати (dérhaty, to pull, to tug) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: дрь́замь (drʹ́zamʹ, to scutch, to swingle (hemp, flax)) (archaic or dialectal; Gerov's dictionary)
    • Slovene: dŕgati (to rub, to sweep, to whet, to strangle) (tonal orthography), 1sg. dȓgam (tonal orthography); dŕzati (to scrape, to scratch, to comb (flax), to graze) (tonal orthography), 1sg. dȓzam, dȓžem (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: drhat (to tear, to pluck) (rare)
    • Polish: dziergać (to stitch, to comb (flax), to make bobbin lace), also (obsolete or dialectal) dzierzgać
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: źergaś (to comb (flax))

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “dьrgati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 135: “v.”
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