Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porsę

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

Diminutive of Proto-Balto-Slavic *parśas, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos. Note the suffix *-ę for forming names of young animals.[1]

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian paršas, Old Prussian prastian.

Indo-European cognates include Latin porcus, Ancient Greek πόρκος (pórkos), Proto-Germanic *farhaz, Khotanese рāʾsä (from *раrsа-), Middle Irish orc.

Noun

*pȏrsę n[1]

  1. piglet

Inflection

Declension of *pȏrsę (nt-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *pȏrsę *pȏrsęti *porsętà
genitive *pȏrsęte *porsętù *porsę̃tъ
dative *pȏrsęti *porsętьmà *porsę̃tьmъ
accusative *pȏrsę *pȏrsęti *porsętà
instrumental *pȏrsętьmь *porsętьmà *porsętý
locative *pȏrsęte *porsętù *porsę̃tьxъ
vocative *pȏrsę *pȏrsęti *porsętà

Descendants

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поросенок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “порося́”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pȍrsę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 414: “n. nt (c) ‘piglet’”
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