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ворогъ

ворогъ

Old East Slavic

Noun

ворогъ ‎(vorogŭ) m

an enemy, foe
- 1377, Лаврентьевская летопись (Laurentian Codex), the Primary Chronicle, s.a. 6603 (1095):
  […] се тꙑ не шелъ ѥси с нама на поганꙑꙗ . иже погубили суть землю Русьскую . а се у тобе есть Итларевичь . любо убии любо и даи нама . то есть ворогъ Русьстѣи земли.‎
  
  […] se ty ne šelŭ jesi s nama na poganyja . iže pogubili sutĭ zemlju Rusĭskuju . a se u tobe estĭ Itlarevičĭ . ljubo ubii ljubo i dai nama . to estĭ vorogŭ Rusĭstěi zemli.
  
  […] you did not fight with us against the pagans that destroyed the land of the Rus, while you keep the son of Itlar - either kill him or give him to us, for he is the enemy of Rus.

Declension

Declension of ворогъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ворогъ	ворога	ворози
Accusative	ворогъ	ворога	ворогꙑ
Genitive	ворога	ворогу	ворогъ
Locative	ворозѣ	ворогу	ворозѣхъ
Dative	ворогу	ворогома	ворогомъ
Instrumental	ворогомь	ворогома	ворогꙑ
Vocative	ворожѣ	ворога	ворози

Related terms

ворожа ‎(voroža, “enchantment”)
ворожениѥ ‎(voroženije, “augury, enchanting”)

ворожеꙗ ‎(vorožeja, “enchantress”)
ворожити ‎(vorožiti, “to augur, enchant”)

Derived terms

Terms derived from ворогъ

Descendants

Belarusian: вораг ‎(vorah)
Russian: ворог ‎(vorog) (poetic)

Rusyn: ворог ‎(voroh)
Ukrainian: ворог ‎(voroh)

References

Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “ворогъ”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 302