Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/paportь

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

From reduplicated root *pa-por- +‎ *-tь with unexpected 'a', from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-?.

Cognate withLithuanian papártis, papar̃tis, papartу̃s (“fern”),Latvian papar̂de (“fern”), paparkste, paparksts (“fern”).AlsoLithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”),Latvian spàrns (“wing”),Proto-Indo-Iranian *parnám (“wing, feather”) (> Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇám), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀‎ n (par^əna)),Proto-Celtic *ɸratis (“fern”) (> Irish raith),Proto-West Germanic *farn (“fern”) (> English fern, Old High German farn).

For the meaning compareCzech čertí péro (“fern”), Ancient Greek πτερίς (pterís, “fern”) (< πτερόν (pterón, “wing”)).

Noun

*pàportь f

fern

Declension

Declension of *pàportь (i-stem, accent paradigm a)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pàportь	*pàporti	*pàporti
Accusative	*pàportь	*pàporti	*pàporti
Genitive	*pàportī	pàportьju, pàporťu^*	pàportьjь, pàportī^*
Locative	*pàportī	pàportьju, pàporťu^*	*pàportьxъ
Dative	*pàporti	*pàportьma	*pàportьmъ
Instrumental	pàportьjǫ, pàporťǭ^*	*pàportьma	*pàportьmī
Vocative	*paporti	*pàporti	*pàporti

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

*pero (“feather”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: папороть (paporotĭ)
  - Belarusian: па́параць (páparacʹ)
    - ⇒ Belarusian: па́паратнік (páparatnik)
  - Russian: па́пороть (páporotʹ)
    - ⇒ Russian: па́поротник (páporotnik)
  - Ukrainian: па́пороть (páporotʹ)
    - ⇒ Ukrainian: па́поротник (páporotnyk)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: папрат (paprat)
- Macedonian: папрат (paprat)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: па̏пра̄т
  Latin: pȁprāt
- Slovene: práprot (< *paprat/*praprat)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kapratie
  - Czech: kapraď (< *paprať)
- Kashubian: parparc, parpac
- Polabian: porport
- Polish: paproć
- Slovak: papraď, kapradie, papradie
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: paproś
  - Upper Sorbian: paproć

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “па́пороть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. (1993), “папоротник”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 4