Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prǫtъ

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.

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to spring, to sprout”) + *-ǫtъ, related to Proto-Slavic *prędati (“to lead”), Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to prance”).

Vasmer and Machek suggest original meaning leap → shoot, sprout with similar semantic shift as Russian побе́г (pobég, “flight; fig. sprout”). Possibly related to Proto-Slavic *prytь (“outbreak”), Proto-Germanic *sprutô (“sprout”).

*prǫ̑tъ m

1. rod, bar

   Synonyms: *palica, *žьrdь, *drǫgъ, *ščapъ

• *prǫtьcь, *prǫtьčica (diminutive)
• *prǫtъka (“stick”)

• *paportь, *porportь (“fern”) (possibly)
• *prǫdъ (“bank”)
• *prǫgъ (“elastic object; locust”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: прут (prut)
  • Russian: прут (prut)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: прут (prut)
  • Ukrainian: прут (prut)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: прѫтъ (prǫtŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⱘⱅⱏ (prǫtŭ)

  • Bulgarian: прът (prǎt), прънт (prǎnt) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: прат (prat)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пру̑т

    Latin script: prȗt

  • Slovene: prọ̑t (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: prut
    • Czech: prut
  • Kashubian: prãt
  • Polabian: prǫt
  • Polish: pręt
  • Slovak: prút
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pšut
    • Upper Sorbian: prut

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “прут”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “прът¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 830