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^[1] (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