Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pirъ

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

Probably, derived from *piti (“to drink”).

Noun

*pirъ m

1. fest?
2. party?

Declension

Declension of *pirъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pirъ	*pira	*piri
genitive	*pira	*piru	*pirъ
dative	*piru	*piroma	*piromъ
accusative	*pirъ	*pira	*piry
instrumental	*pirъmь, *piromь*	*piroma	*piry
locative	*pirě	*piru	*pirěxъ
vocative	*pire	*pira	*piri

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: пиръ (pirŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: пиръ (pir)
      • Belarusian: пір (pir)
      • Ukrainian: пир (pyr) (obsolete)
    • Russian: пир (pir)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: пиръ (pirŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⰺⱃⱏ (pirŭ)

  • Bulgarian: пир (pir)
  • Macedonian: пир (pir)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пи̑р

    Latin script: pȋr

  • Slovene: pȋr (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: pir

Further reading

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