Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porporъ

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

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Baltic cognates include Lithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”), Latvian spārns (“wing”).

Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇa, “wing”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀 (par^əna, “feather”).

Noun

*porporъ m

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Declension

Declension of *porporъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*porporъ	*porpora	*porpori
genitive	*porpora	*porporu	*porporъ
dative	*porporu	*porporoma	*porporomъ
accusative	*porporъ	*porpora	*porpory
instrumental	porporъmь, porporomь^*	*porporoma	*porpory
locative	*porporě	*porporu	*porporěxъ
vocative	*porpore	*porpora	*porpori

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

Related terms

*pariti
*pero (“feather”)
*pьrati (“to fly, move”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: поропоръ (poroporŭ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: прапоръ (praporŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⰰⱂⱁⱃⱏ (praporŭ)
  - → Old East Slavic: прапоръ (praporŭ)
    - Russian: пра́пор (prápor) (archaic)
    - Ukrainian: пра́пор (prápor), пра́пір (prápir)
  - → Romanian: prapur
- Bulgarian: пра́порец (práporec)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: прапорац
  
  Latin script: praporac
- Slovene: prápor, práporəc (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: prapor, dial. prápor
- Polish: proporzec
- Slovak: prápor

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “прапор”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress