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

1. flag
2. ensign

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

• Church Slavonic: прапоръ (praporŭ)
  • → Russian: пра́пор (prápor)
  • → Ukrainian: пра́пір (prápir)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: поропоръ (poroporŭ)

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пра́порец (práporec)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: прапорац

    Latin script: praporac

  • Slovene: prápor, práporǝc (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