Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pъrskati

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

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Akin to Latvian pùrskât and Lithuanian pur̃kšti.

*pъrskati impf (perfective *pъrs(k)nǫti)

1. (intransitive) to chortle?, to snicker?, to snort?, to sputter?

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: по́рскаць (pórskacʹ)
    • Russian: по́рскать (pórskatʹ)
    • Ukrainian: порска́ти (porskáty), порська́ти (porsʹkáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пръскам (prǎskam)
  • Macedonian: прска (prska)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пр́скати

    Latin script: pŕskati

  • Slovene: pŕskati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • Czech: prskat
  • Old Polish: parskać
    • Polish: parskać
  • Slovak: prskať
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: parskaś

    Upper Sorbian: porskać

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “по́рскать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress