Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/perpelъ
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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. |
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Has been compared to Lithuanian рíераlа, pùtpelė (“quail”), Latvian paipala (“quail”), Old Prussian penpalo (“quail”), Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”), Old English fīfealde (“butterfly”) and Old High German fîfaltra (“butterfly”).
Noun
*perpelъ m
- quail (bird)
Declension
Declension of *perpelъ (hard o-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *perpelъ | *perpela | *perpeli |
| genitive | *perpela | *perpelu | *perpelъ |
| dative | *perpelu | *perpeloma | *perpelomъ |
| accusative | *perpelъ | *perpela | *perpely |
| instrumental | *perpelъmь, *perpelomь* | *perpeloma | *perpely |
| locative | *perpelě | *perpelu | *perpelěxъ |
| vocative | *perpele | *perpela | *perpeli |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- ⇒ Bulgarian: пре́пелица (prépelica) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Macedonian: препелица (prepelica)
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: пре̏пелица
- Latin script: prȅpelica
- ⇒ Slovene: prepelíca (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- ⇒ Old Czech: křěpelicě
- ⇒ Czech: křepelka
- ⇒ Old Polish: przepierzyca, przepiórka
- Polish: przepiórka
- ⇒ Slovak: prepelica
- Sorbian:
- ⇒ Old Czech: křěpelicě
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: prepeliță
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пе́репел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2021), “*perpelъ/*perpelь(?)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 42 (*peča – *perzъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 256