Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/perpelъ

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

Has been compared to Lithuanian рíераlа, pùtpelė (“quail”), Latvian paipala (“quail”), Old Prussian penpalo (“quail”), Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”), Old English fīfealde (“butterfly”) and Old High German fîfaltra (“butterfly”).

Noun

*perpelъ m

1. quail (bird)

Declension

Declension of *perpelъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*perpelъ	*perpela	*perpeli
genitive	*perpela	*perpelu	*perpelъ
dative	*perpelu	*perpeloma	*perpelomъ
accusative	*perpelъ	*perpela	*perpely
instrumental	*perpelъmь, *perpelomь*	*perpeloma	*perpely
locative	*perpelě	*perpelu	*perpelěxъ
vocative	*perpele	*perpela	*perpeli

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Belarusian: перапёлка (pjerapjólka)
  • Russian: пе́репел (pérepel), (dialectal) пе́лепел (pélepel)
  • Ukrainian: пе́репел (pérepel)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: пре́пелица (prépelica) (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: препелица (prepelica)
  • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пре̏пелица

    Latin script: prȅpelica

  • ⇒ Slovene: prepelíca (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Czech: křěpelicě
    • ⇒ Czech: křepelka
  • ⇒ Old Polish: przepierzyca, przepiórka
    • Polish: przepiórka
  • ⇒ Slovak: prepelica
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: paśpula

    Upper Sorbian: pocpula

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: prepeliță

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пе́репел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2021), “*perpelъ/*perpelь(?)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 42 (*peča – *perzъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 256