Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pormъ

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-Indo-European *pórmos, also found in Proto-Germanic *farmaz (“fare; load, cargo”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to cross over”).

Noun

*pormъ m

ferry

Declension

Declension of *pormъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pormъ	*porma	*pormi
genitive	*porma	*pormu	*pormъ
dative	*pormu	*pormoma	*pormomъ
accusative	*pormъ	*porma	*pormy
instrumental	pormъmь, pormomь^*	*pormoma	*pormy
locative	*pormě	*pormu	*porměxъ
vocative	*porme	*porma	*pormi

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

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: поромъ (poromŭ)
  - Belarusian: паро́м (paróm)
  - Russian: поро́м (poróm), паро́м (paróm)
  - Ukrainian: поро́м (poróm)
South Slavic:
- Russian Church Slavonic: прамъ (pramŭ)
- Bulgarian: прам (pram)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пра̏м
  
  Latin script: prȁm
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: *prám
  - Czech: prám
  - → Middle High German: prâm
  - → Middle Low German: prām
    - German Low German: Prahm
      - → German: Prahm
    - → Estonian: praam
    - → Middle Dutch: praem
      - Dutch: praam
        → English: praam, pram
        
        → Finnish: proomu
    - → Old Norse: prámr
      - Danish: pram
        → Icelandic: prammi
      - Icelandic: prámur
      - Norwegian Nynorsk: pram
      - Swedish: pråm
    - → Polabian: prom
- Old Polish: prom
  - Polish: prom, pram, prum, prym (Middle Polish)
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: próm
- Slovak: prám
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: prama

References

Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/pormъ”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 483
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “паро́м”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- See: Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поро́м”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress