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, Khotanese рāʾsä (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

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поросенок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “порося́”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka