Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veriga

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

By surface analysis, *verti (“to thread”) +‎ *-iga.

Noun

*veriga f^[1]

chain, series

Declension

Declension of *veriga (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*veriga	*veridzě	*verigy
genitive	*verigy	*verigu	*verigъ
dative	*veridzě	*verigama	*verigamъ
accusative	*verigǫ	*veridzě	*verigy
instrumental	verigojǫ, verigǫ^**	*verigama	*verigami
locative	*veridzě	*verigu	verigasъ, verigaxъ^*
vocative	*verigo	*veridzě	*verigy

^* -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).

Related terms

*verěja
*vernь
*vьrvь

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: верига (veriga)
  - Russian: вери́га (veríga)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: верига (veriga)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱃⰻⰳⰰ (veriga)
- Bulgarian: вери́га (veríga)
- Macedonian: ве́рига (vériga)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: вѐрига
  
  Latin script: vèriga
- Slovene: veríga (tonal orthography)

Non-Slavic:
- → Albanian: verigë
- → Romanian: verigă

References

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

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “верига”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “вериги”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 143
Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “верига”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 135

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

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