Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porsę

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

Diminutive of Proto-Balto-Slavic *parśas, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos. Note the suffix *-ę for forming names of young animals.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian paršas, Old Prussian prastian.

Indo-European cognates include Latin porcus, Ancient Greek πόρκος (pórkos), Proto-Germanic *farhaz, Northern Kurdish purs, Khotanese рāsi (from *раrsа-), Middle Irish orc.

Noun

*pȏrsę n[1]

piglet

Inflection

Declension of *pȏrsę (nt-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pȏrsę	*pȏrsęti	*porsętà
genitive	*pȏrsęte	*porsętù	*porsę̃tъ
dative	*pȏrsęti	*porsętьmà	*porsę̃tьmъ
accusative	*pȏrsę	*pȏrsęti	*porsętà
instrumental	*pȏrsętьmь	*porsętьmà	*porsętý
locative	*pȏrsęte	*porsętù	*porsę̃tьxъ
vocative	*pȏrsę	*pȏrsęti	*porsętà

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: поросѧ (porosę)
  - Old Ruthenian: поросѧ́ (porosjá)
    - Belarusian: парася́ (parasjá), парасё (parasjó)
    - Ukrainian: порося́ (porosjá); переся́ (peresjá) (dialectal)
  - Russian: порося́ (porosjá)
    - ⇒ Russian: поросёнок (porosjónok)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: прасѧ (prasę)
- Bulgarian: прасе́ (prasé), прасе́нце (prasénce)
- Macedonian: прасе (prase), прасенце (prasence)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пра̑се
  
  Latin script: prȃse
- Slovene: prasȅ, práse, prášič (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: prasě
  - Czech: prase
    - Moravian (Mistřice): prasa
- Kashubian: parsã, prosã
- Polabian: porsą
- Polish: prosię
- Silesian: prosiã
- Slovak: prasa
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: proso, рrоsаtkо
  - Lower Sorbian: prose

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pȍrsę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 414: “n. nt (c) ‘piglet’”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pȍrsę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 414: “n. nt (c) ‘piglet’”