Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porgъ

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 *parˀgas, from Proto-Indo-European *porgʰos. Cognate with Lithuanian pérgas (“fishing canoe”).

Noun

*pòrgъ m

threshold, doorstep

Declension

Declension of *porgъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*porgъ	*pòrga	*pòrdzi
genitive	*pòrga	*pòrgu	*pòrgъ
dative	*pòrgu	*pòrgoma	*pòrgomъ
accusative	*porgъ	*pòrga	*pòrgy
instrumental	pòrgъmь, pòrgomь^*	*pòrgoma	*pòrgȳ
locative	*pòrdzě	*pòrgu	*pòrdzě̄xъ
vocative	*pòrže	*pòrga	*pòrdzi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: порогъ (porogŭ)
  - Belarusian: паро́г (paróh)
  - Russian: поро́г (poróg)
  - Ukrainian: порі́г (poríh)
    - → Polish: poroh
  - Carpathian Rusyn: пориг (poryh)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: прагъ (pragŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⰰⰳⱏ (pragŭ)
- Bulgarian: праг (prag)
- Macedonian: праг (prag)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: праг
  
  Latin script: prag
- Slovene: prag
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: práh
  - Czech: práh
- Kashubian: próg
- ⇒ Kashubian: zôparg
- Polabian: porg
- Polish: próg
- Silesian: prōg
- Slovak: prah
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: prog
  - Upper Sorbian: próh

Borrowings from some intermediate language:

→ Albanian: prag
→ Romanian: prag

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поро́г”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Derksen, Rick (2008) “*porgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413