порохъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-.

Noun

порохъ (poroxŭ)

1. dust
   • Иоанъ, editor (1076), “пороха”, in Изборник 1076 года [Izbornik of 1076]‎^[1], page 81 (41), line 9

     Насыштѧꙗ сѧ многосластьнааго питиꙗ· помѧни пиюштааго теплоу водоу отъ слъньца въстопѣвъшѫ· и тоу же пороха нападъшѫ· ѡтъ мѣста незавѣтръна:::

     Nasyštęja sę mnogoslastĭnaago pitija· pomęni pijuštaago teplu vodu otŭ slŭnĭca vŭstopěvŭšǫ· i tu že poroxa napadŭšǫ· otŭ města nezavětrŭna:::

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2. powder

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Russian: по́рох (pórox)
• Ukrainian: по́рох (pórox)
• Belarusian: по́рах (pórax)

Further reading

• Bogatova, G. A., editor (1991), “порохъ”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 17 (помаранецъ – потишати), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 127
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “порохъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1214