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]‎, 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), numbers 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]‎ (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1214
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