vȏrgъ

vȏrgъ Grammatical information: m. o Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `foe'

Old Church Slavic:

vragъ `foe' [m o]

Russian:

vórog (folk poet.) `foe, fiend' [m o]

Czech:

vrah `foe' [m o]

Slovak:

vrah `murderer' [m o]

Polish:

wróg `foe' [m o], wroga [Gens]

Upper Sorbian:

wróh `murderer' [m o], wroha [Gens]

Serbo-Croatian:

vrȃg `devil' [m o], vrȃga [Gens];

Čak. vrȃg (Vrgda) `devil' [m o], vrȃga [Gens];

Čak. vrȃh (Orbanići) `devil' [m o], vrȃga [Gens]

Slovene:

vrȃg `devil' [m o]

Bulgarian:

vrag `enemy' [m o]

Lithuanian:

var̃gas `hardship, misery' [m o] 2/4

Latvian:

vā̀rgs² (dial.) `misery' [m o];

vãrgs `pining, miserable' [adj o]

Old Prussian:

wargan `misery, suffering, danger' [Accs];

wargs `evil' [adj]

Indo-European reconstruction: (h₁)uorg-o- \{1\}

Comments: The reconstruction of an initial laryngeal hinges on Gk. εἴργω `shut in, shut out' [verb], which may or may not be cognate.

Other cognates:

Go. wrikan `persecute' [verb]