From *bogъ (“wealth, share; god”) + *-atъ. Compare *ubogъ (“poor”).
Indefinite declension of *bogatъ (hard)
Definite declension of *bogatъ (hard)
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бога́тый”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bogàtъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 50: “adj. o ‘rich’”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “bogȁt”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*boga̋tъ”