Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veprь

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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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

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

Noun

*veprь m

1. boar, wild boar

Inflection

Declension of *veprь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*veprь	*vepra	*vepri
Accusative	*veprь	*vepra	*veprę̇
Genitive	*vepra	*vepru	*veprь
Locative	*vepri	*vepru	*veprixъ
Dative	*vepru	*veprema	*vepremъ
Instrumental	*veprьmь, *vepremь*	*veprema	*vepri
Vocative	*vepru	*vepra	*vepri

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• 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)
      • Rusyn: вепéрь (vepérʹ)
        • ⇒ Rusyn: вепри́ско (veprýsko)
      • Ukrainian: вепр (vepr); вéпер (véper), вепéр (vepér) (dialectal)
        • ⇒ Ukrainian: вéприк (vépryk)-->
    • 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: вепрь (veprĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰲⰵⱂⱃⱐ (veprĭ)

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

    Cyrillic: ве̏пар

    Latin: 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

Further reading

• 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 Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress