prsia

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьrsь, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European, cognate with Slovene prsi (“breast”), Serbo-Croatian пр̏са/pȑsa (“breast”), Russian перси (persi). Non-Slavic cognates include Ossetian фарс (fars, “flank”), Sanskrit पर्शु (párśu), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬱𐬎 (parašu, “rib”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpr̩si̯a/

Noun

prsia n pl (genitive plural pŕs, declension pattern of srdce)

1. (plural only, anatomy) breast
2. (plural only, anatomy) chest

Declension

Declension of prsia

	plurale tantum
nominative	prsia
genitive	pŕs
dative	prsiam
accusative	prsia
locative	prsiach
instrumental	prsami

Synonyms

• (chest): hruď f

Derived terms

• prsný
• prská n pl, prsičká n pl

References

• “prsia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024