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Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-.
Noun
порохъ (poroxŭ)
- dust
- Иоанъ, editor (1076), “пороха”, in Изборник 1076 года [Izbornik of 1076], page 81 (41), line 9
Насыштѧꙗ сѧ многосластьнааго питиꙗ· помѧни пиюштааго теплоу водоу отъ слъньца въстопѣвъшѫ· и тоу же пороха нападъшѫ· ѡтъ мѣста незавѣтръна:::- Nasyštęja sę mnogoslastĭnaago pitija· pomęni pijuštaago teplu vodu otŭ slŭnĭca vŭstopěvŭšǫ· i tu že poroxa napadŭšǫ· otŭ města nezavětrŭna:::
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- powder
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- Bogatova, G. A., editor (1991), “порохъ”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), numbers 17 (помаранецъ – потишати), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 127
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “порохъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1214