Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pьrsty

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

From *pьrstъ (“finger”) +‎ *-y?

Noun

*pьrsty m

1. finger ring
2. ring

Inflection

Declension of *pьrsty (n-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pьrsty	*pьrsteni	*pьrstene
genitive	*pьrstene	*pьrstenu	*pьrstenъ
dative	*pьrsteni	*pьrstenьma	*pьrstenьmъ
accusative	*pьrstenь	*pьrsteni	*pьrsteni
instrumental	*pьrstenьmь	*pьrstenьma	*pьrstenьmi
locative	*pьrstene	*pьrstenu	*pьrstenьxъ
vocative	*pьrsty	*pьrsteni	*pьrstene

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пьрстьнь (pĭrstĭnĭ), перстень (perstenĭ)
    • Belarusian: пе́рсцень (pjérscjenʹ)
    • Russian: пе́рстень (pérstenʹ)
    • Ukrainian: пе́рстень (pérstenʹ), пе́рстінь (pérstinʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: пръстень (prŭstenĭ), прьстень (prĭstenĭ)?

  • Bulgarian: пръ́стен (prǎ́sten)
  • Macedonian: прстен (prsten)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пр̏сте̄н, пр̏сте̑н

    Latin script: pȑs̄ten, pȑstȇn

  • Slovene: pŕstan (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: prsten
    • Czech: prsten
  • Kashubian: pierscéń, piestrzéń
  • Old Polish: pierścień, pierzcień, pierzścień, pirścień
    • Polish: pierścień
    • Silesian: piestrzyń
  • Polabian: parstén
  • Slovak: prsteň

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “перст”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “перст”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 25
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “пьрстьнь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1772