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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nebogъ

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

A bahuvrihi compound of *ne (not) and an adjective *bogъ (fortunate), but which later shifted in meaning to "god". Compare *ubogъ (poor).

Adjective

*nebogъ [1]

  1. poor
  2. unfortunate

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: небо́гий (nebógij)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: nebohý
    • Old Polish: niebog
      • Polish: niebogi
    • Slovak: nebohý
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: njabogi
      • Upper Sorbian: njeboh

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nebogъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 348: “adj. o ‘poor, unfortunate’”
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