Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bergъ

Etymology
Most linguists derive the word from, from , with 🇨🇬 as the exact cognate. Close cognates include 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. PIE ǵʰ is expected to give PS z, not g. Vasmer suggested that there existed a variant of the root with a depalatalised stem-final velar.

Because of this unexpected form, some scholars consider it a borrowing from Germanic, e.g. 🇨🇬, or from a Venetic-Illyrian language. Per Derksen, this is possible but it lacks a solid basis.

Noun

 * 1) bank, shore
 * 2) edge

Inflection
Though it is traditionally reconstructed as a hard o-stem, Pronk-Tiethoff suggests that was probably a u-stem instead, noting its accentuation and its reflexes found in Russian, e.g. the “second locative” na beregú and the adjective formation beregovój.

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