Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porzъ

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

Probably influenced by *kъnorzъ, from earlier *porsъ, from Proto-Indo-European *porh₃-s-os. Compare similar Proto-Germanic *farzô (“bull”).

Noun

*pȏrzъ m

1. young domestic animal

Declension

Declension of *pȏrzъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pȏrzъ	*pȏrza	*pȏrzi
genitive	*pȏrza	*porzù	*põrzъ
dative	*pȏrzu	*porzomà	*porzòmъ
accusative	*pȏrzъ	*pȏrza	*pȏrzy
instrumental	*pȏrzъmь, *pȏrzomь*	*porzomà	*porzý
locative	*pȏrzě	*porzù	*porzě̃xъ
vocative	*porze	*pȏrza	*pȏrzi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

adjectives

• *porzdъ

Related terms

adjectives

• *porzdьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: порозъ (porozŭ, “goat, ram”)
    • Russian: (dialectal) по́роз (póroz, “bull, boar, reindeer”)
      • → Komi-Zyrian: пороз (poroz)
• South Slavic:
  • Church Slavonic: празъ (prazŭ, “ram”)
  • Bulgarian: праз (praz) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (“uncastrated ram”)

    Cyrillic script: пра̑з

    Latin script: prȃz

  • Slovene: prȃz (“breeding goat, ram”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Sorbian:
    • ⇒ Upper Sorbian: prózdnik (“calf”)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “по́роз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress