Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьrgati

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

    Factitive-iterative counterpart to *vergti +‎ *-ati.

    Verb

    *vьrgati impf

    1. alternative form of *vergti (to cast, to throw)

    Conjugation

    Alternative forms

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Middle Belarusian: вергати (verhati)
        • Belarusian: вірга́цца (virhácca) (dialectal)
      • Russian: верга́ть (vergátʹ) (usually with prefixes); верза́ти (verzáti) (obsolete, XVI cent.)
      • Ukrainian: ве́рга́ти (vérháty)
    • South Slavic:
    • West Slavic:
      • Czech: vrhat (< earlier vrci)
      • Polish: wierzgać
      • Slovak: vrhať
      • Sorbian:
        • Upper Sorbian: wierhać
        • Lower Sorbian: wiergaś

    Further reading

    • Anikin, A. E. (2012), “вергать”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 6 (вал – вершок), Moscow: LRC, Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 269
    • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “вергати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 352
    • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “въргам”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 210