Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pǫxyrь

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

Alternative forms

• *pǫxorь, *puxyrь, *puxorь
• (stomach, intestine): *baxorь, *baxurь influenced by *baxoriti (“to conconct”) if already ere Czech-Slovak

Etymology

From *puxъ (“something inflated, blister”) +‎ *-yrь.

Noun

*pǫxyrь m

1. anything blown up in shape, bladder, blob
   1. blister on the skin
   2. urinary bladder
   3. stomach, maw, paunch, intestine
   4. small pouch, sachet

   Synonym: *měxyrь, *měxorь

Inflection

Declension of *pǫxyrь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pǫxyrь	*pǫxyri	*pǫxyrьje, *pǫxyře*
genitive	*pǫxyri	*pǫxyrьju, *pǫxyřu*	*pǫxyrьjь, *pǫxyri*
dative	*pǫxyri	*pǫxyrьma	*pǫxyrьmъ
accusative	*pǫxyrь	*pǫxyri	*pǫxyri
instrumental	*pǫxyrьmь	*pǫxyrьma	*pǫxyrьmi
locative	*pǫxyri	*pǫxyrьju, *pǫxyřu*	*pǫxyrьxъ
vocative	*pǫxyri	*pǫxyri	*pǫxyrьje, *pǫxyře*

^* 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:
  • Ukrainian: пухи́р (puxýr)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: puchr, separating the meaning “stomach” as bachoř apparently influenced by *baxoriti (“to conconct”)
    • Czech: puchýř, puchor, pucher, puchr; bachor, bachora, bachorek, bouchor, bouchoř (regional)
      • → Polish: bachor
  • Kashubian: pąchérz, pąchãrz
  • Polish: pęcherz, pęchierz, pęchirz, pęchyrz (obsolete)
  • Slovak: puchor; bachor
    • →? Bulgarian: ба́ху́р (báhúr) (dialectal)
    • →? Serbo-Croatian: (dialectal)

      Latin script: bȁhor, bȁor

      Cyrillic script: ба̏хор, ба̏ор

  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: puchoŕ
    • Upper Sorbian: pucheŕ, now written pucher

Further reading

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “pęcherz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 422b
• Machek, Václav (1968) “puchnouti”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 498
• Machek, Václav (1968) “bachor”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 42
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “пухи́р”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Miklosich, Franz (1886) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 257b
• Rosół, Rafał (2010) “O zapomnianych znaczeniach pol. bachor i bachur”, in Linguistica Copernicana‎^[1], volume 1 (3), page 235 seqq.
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*baxorъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 136