Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porxъ

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *paršas, from Proto-Indo-European *pers- (“to sprinkle”). Cf. Lithuanian purkšti (“shower”), Latvian pārsla (“flake”), Sanskrit पृषत् (pṛ́ṣat), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬎𐬌𐬌𐬀 (paršuiia), Old Norse fors, Tocharian A/Tocharian B pärs-.

*pȏrxъ m

1. dust

• *pь̑rxъ

• East Slavic: порохъ (poroxŭ)
  • Belarusian по́рах (pórax)
  • Russian: по́рох (pórox)
  • Ukrainian: по́рох (pórox)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: прахъ (praxŭ)
    • → Russian: прах (prax)
    • → Ukrainian: прах (prax)
  • Bulgarian: прах (prah)
  • Macedonian: прав (prav)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пра̑х

    Latin script: prȃh

  • Slovene: prȃh (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: prach
    • Czech: prach
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): prach
      • Moravian (Mistřice): prach
  • Polish: proch
  • Slovak: prach
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: proch
    • Lower Sorbian: proch

Non-Slavic:

• → Megleno-Romanian: prau
• → Romanian: praf

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “по́рох”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*porxъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413