Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porsę
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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
Diminutive of Proto-Balto-Slavic *parśas, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos. Note the suffix *-ę for forming names of young animals.
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian paršas, Old Prussian prastian.
Indo-European cognates include Latin porcus, Ancient Greek πόρκος (pórkos), Proto-Germanic *farhaz, Northern Kurdish purs, Khotanese рāsi (from *раrsа-), Middle Irish orc.
Noun
Inflection
Declension of *pȏrsę (nt-stem, accent paradigm c)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *pȏrsę | *pȏrsęti | *porsętà |
| genitive | *pȏrsęte | *porsętù | *porsę̃tъ |
| dative | *pȏrsęti | *porsętьmà | *porsę̃tьmъ |
| accusative | *pȏrsę | *pȏrsęti | *porsętà |
| instrumental | *pȏrsętьmь | *porsętьmà | *porsętý |
| locative | *pȏrsęte | *porsętù | *porsę̃tьxъ |
| vocative | *pȏrsę | *pȏrsęti | *porsętà |
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поросенок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “порося́”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pȍrsę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 414: “n. nt (c) ‘piglet’”