Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/napьrstъkъ

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 *na (“on”) +‎ *pьrstъ (“finger”) +‎ *-ъkъ.

Noun

*napьrstъkъ m

1. thimble

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: напёрсток (napjórstok)
  • Ukrainian: напе́рсток (napérstok)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: (напръстник (naprǎstnik) secondary)
  • Macedonian: напрсток (naprstok)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: напрстак

    Latin script: naprstak

  • Slovene: (naprstnik secondary)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: náprstek
  • Polish: naparstek
    • → Belarusian: напа́рстак (napárstak)
  • Slovak: náprstok

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1995), “*napьrstъkъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 22 (*naděliti – *narodъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 236