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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.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *weprias. Cognate with Latvian vepris (“castrated boar”), Latin aper (“wild boar”), Proto-Germanic *eburaz (“boar”). Possibly Northern Indo-European substrate word.
Noun
*veprь m
- boar, wild boar
Inflection
Declension of *veprь (soft o-stem)
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singular
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dual
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plural
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| nominative
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*veprь
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*vepra
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*vepri
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| genitive
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*vepra
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*vepru
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*veprь
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| dative
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*vepru
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*veprema
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*vepremъ
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| accusative
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*veprь
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*vepra
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*veprę̇
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| instrumental
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*veprьmь, *vepremь*
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*veprema
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*vepri
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| locative
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*vepri
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*vepru
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*veprixъ
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| vocative
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*vepru
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*vepra
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*vepri
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* -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)
- Carpathian Rusyn: вепéрь (vepérʹ)
- ⇒ Carpathian Rusyn: вепри́ско (veprýsko)
- Ukrainian: вепр (vepr); вéпер (véper), вепéр (vepér) (dialectal)
- 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 script: вепрь (veprĭ)
- Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱂⱃⱐ (veprĭ)
- Bulgarian: ве́пър (vépǎr)
- Macedonian: вепар (vepar)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ве̏пар
- Latin script: vȅpar
- Slovene: vẹ́per (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vepř
- Old Polish: wieprz
- Polabian: vipĕr, vipr
- Pomeranian:
- Slovak: vepor
- Sorbian:
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 Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress