Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/praščurъ

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

Likely from *pra- +‎ *ščurъ.

Noun

*praščurъ m

1. ancestor

Inflection

Declension of *praščurъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*praščurъ	*praščura	*praščuri
genitive	*praščura	*praščuru	*praščurъ
dative	*praščuru	*praščuroma	*praščuromъ
accusative	*praščurъ	*praščura	*praščury
instrumental	*praščurъmь, *praščuromь*	*praščuroma	*praščury
locative	*praščurě	*praščuru	*praščurěxъ
vocative	*praščure	*praščura	*praščuri

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пращуръ (praščurŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: пращуръ (praščur), пращоръ (praščor)
      • Belarusian: пра́шчур (práščur)
      • Ukrainian: пра́щур (práščur)
    • Russian: пра́щур (práščur)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: праштоуръ (prašturŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⰰⱎⱅⱆⱃⱏ (prašturŭ)

• West Slavic:
  • Polish: praszczur

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пра́щур”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress