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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/piskořь

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

*pīskàti +‎ *-ořь. Note also that Slovak apparently more recently formed piskor to mean the “common shrew” and the “mouthpiece of a pipe”.

Noun

*piskořь m

  1. moray, lamprey, gudgeon, minnow or loach

Inflection
Declension of *piskořь (i-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *piskořь *piskoři *piskořьje, *piskoře*
genitive *piskoři *piskořьju, *piskořu* *piskořьjь, *piskoři*
dative *piskoři *piskořьma *piskořьmъ
accusative *piskořь *piskoři *piskoři
instrumental *piskořьmь *piskořьma *piskořьmi
locative *piskoři *piskořьju, *piskořu* *piskořьxъ
vocative *piskoři *piskoři *piskořьje, *piskoře*
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: песка́р (pjeskár), пячку́р (pjačkúr)
    • Russian: пѣска́рь (pěskárʹ), песка́рь (peskárʹ), писка́рь (piskárʹ)
    • Ukrainian: писко́р (pyskór), піска́р (piskár), пічку́р (pičkúr), пискі́р (pyskír), пі́скор (pískor), пі́скур (pískur)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: писка́л (piskál)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: пи̏скор, пи̏шкор
      Latin script: pȉskor, pȉškor
    • Slovene: piskọ́r (tonal orthography), piškọ́r, piškúr (this last has become the standard form)
    • → Romanian: pișcar, chișcar
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: piskoř
    • Kashubian: pschieskorz
    • Polish: piskorz
    • Slovak: peskár
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: piskorj, piskor
      • Upper Sorbian: piskorj, piskor
    • → German: Peißker, Beißker, Peizker, Beißer, Pitzger, Pietsche

Further reading
  • Bezlaj, France (1995) Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Slovenian Language] (in Slovene), volumes 3 (P – S), Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, →ISBN, page 43
  • Kolomijec, V. T. (1983) Происхождение общеславянских названий рыб [The Origin of the Common Slavic Names of Fish] (К IX Международному съезду славистов) (in Russian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, pages 39-42, instead connecting to *pěsъkъ (“sand”), a connection elsewhere acknowledged secondary
  • Mikkola, Jooseppi Julius (1902) “Объясненія нѣкоторыхъ славянскихъ словъ”, in Русскій филологическій вѣстникъ‎ (in Russian), volume 48, numbers 3–4, pages 279–280
  • Miklosich, Franz (1886) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 247b
  • Snoj, Marko (2016) “piškur”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пискарь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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