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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/proso
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Unknown. If the Old Prussian word is cognate and not borrowed then from Proto-Balto-Slavic *praśan, which is put as from a Proto-Indo-European *proḱom from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley”), or from *pres- (“to press”). Non-Indo-European origin is also possible. Compare Eastern Mari шурно (šurno), Moksha суро (suro).
Noun
*prȍso n[1]
- broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum)
Inflection
Declension of *prȍso (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *prȍso | *prȍsě | *prosà |
| Accusative | *prȍso | *prȍsě | *prosà |
| Genitive | *prȍsa | *prosù | *pròsъ |
| Locative | *prȍsě | *prosù | *prosě̃xъ |
| Dative | *prȍsu | *prosomà | *prosòmъ |
| Instrumental | *prȍsъmь, *prȍsomь* | *prosomà | *prosý |
| Vocative | *proso | *prȍsě | *prosà |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: просо (proso)
- Belarusian: про́са (prósa)
- Russian: про́со (próso)
- Rusyn: просо (proso)
- Ukrainian: про́со (próso)
- Old East Slavic: просо (proso)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: просо (proso)
- Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⱁⱄⱁ (proso)
- Bulgarian: просо́ (prosó)
- Macedonian: просо (proso)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: про̏со
- Latin: prȍso
- Slovene: prosọ̑ (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: proso
- Czech: proso
- Polabian: prösü
- Polish: proso n, older also prosa f
- Slovak: proso
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pšoso
- Upper Sorbian: proso
- Old Czech: proso
- → Latvian: prosa
- → Lithuanian: prosais
- →? Old Prussian: prassan (“millet”, accusative)
Further reading
- Nieminen, Eino (1956), “Die Benennungen der Hirse in den baltischen Sprachen”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 74. 3./4., pages 166 and 169
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “просо”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “proso prosa, pl. prosa”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 139, 157, 188, 199; PR 138; MP 20; RPT 111)”