Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veprь

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 *weprias. Cognate with Latvian vepris (“castrated boar”), Latin aper (“wild boar”), Proto-Germanic *eburaz (“boar”). Possibly Northern Indo-European substrate word.

*veprь m

1. boar, wild boar

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: вепрь (veprĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: вепръ (vepr), вепъръ (vepr), вѣпръ (věpr), вєпръ (vjepr)
      • Belarusian: вапе́р (vapjér), вепéр (vjepér), вя́пер (vjápjer), вяпéр (vjapér) (dialectal)
        • ⇒ Belarusian: вяпру́к (vjaprúk); япру́к (japrúk) (dialectal)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: вепéрь (vepérʹ)
        • ⇒ Carpathian Rusyn: вепри́ско (veprýsko)
      • Ukrainian: вепр (vepr); вéпер (véper), вепéр (vepér) (dialectal)
    • Russian: вепрь (veprʹ); вапéрь (vapérʹ), вапéр (vapér), вапи́рь (vapírʹ), вепéрь (vepérʹ), вепи́рь (vepírʹ), вапрю (vaprju), вапря́к (vaprják) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: вепрь (veprĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱂⱃⱐ (veprĭ)

  • Bulgarian: ве́пър (vépǎr)
  • Macedonian: вепар (vepar)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ве̏пар

    Latin script: vȅpar

  • Slovene: veper
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: vepř
    • Czech: vepř
  • Polabian: vipr
  • Old Polish: wieprz
    • Polish: wieprz
  • Slovak: vepor
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: wjapś
    • Upper Sorbian: wjapř

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*veprь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 515
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вепрь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress