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Source:*vorgъProto-Slaviccertain
Russian враг (South Slavic shape) beside Ukrainian во́рог (East Slavic pleophony) is the classic Church Slavonic doublet.
English
enemy
Polish
wróg
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BCS script
- RussianврагvragvrakChurch Slavonic
The native East Slavic во́рог survives in folk poetry.
- Ukrainianво́рогvorohˈʋɔrɔɦinherited
- Polishwrógvrukinherited
- Czechnepřítelˈnɛpr̝iːtɛl
- Bosnian-Croatian-Serbianneprijateljнепријатељˈneprijateʎ
BCS vrag, the cognate of враг, means 'devil'.
- Englishenemy