Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porporъ

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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Baltic cognates include Lithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”), Latvian spārns (“wing”).

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇa, “wing”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀 (par^əna, “feather”).

*porporъ m

1. flag
2. ensign

• *pariti
• *pero (“feather”)
• *pьrati (“to fly, move”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: поропоръ (poroporŭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: прапоръ (praporŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⰰⱂⱁⱃⱏ (praporŭ)

    • → Old East Slavic: прапоръ (praporŭ)
      • Russian: пра́пор (prápor) (archaic)
      • Ukrainian: пра́пор (prápor), пра́пір (prápir)
    • → Romanian: prapur
  • Bulgarian: пра́порец (práporec)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: прапорац

    Latin script: praporac

  • Slovene: prápor, práporǝc (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: prapor, dial. prápor
  • Polish: proporzec
  • Slovak: prápor

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