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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porxъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
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-.
Noun
*pȏrxъ m
- dust
Declension
Declension of *pȏrxъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *pȏrxъ | *pȏrxa | *pȏrśi |
Accusative | *pȏrxъ | *pȏrxa | *pȏrxy |
Genitive | *pȏrxa | *porxù | *põrxъ |
Locative | *pȏrśě | *porxù | *porśě̃xъ |
Dative | *pȏrxu | *porxomà | *porxòmъ |
Instrumental | *pȏrxъmь, *pȏrxomь* | *porxomà | *porxý |
Vocative | *porše | *pȏrxa | *pȏrśi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
Proto-Slavic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pers- (0 c, 4 e)
- *pь̑rxъ
Descendants
- 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: пра̑х
- Latin: prȃh
- Slovene: prȃh (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic: прахъ (praxŭ)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: prach
- Czech: prach
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): prach
- Moravian (Mistřice): prach
- Czech: prach
- Polish: proch
- Slovak: prach
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: proch
- Lower Sorbian: proch
- Old Czech: prach
Non-Slavic:
- → Megleno-Romanian: prau
- → Romanian: praf
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “по́рох”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, 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