Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/veprь

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *weprias. Cognate with Latvian vepris (“castrated boar”), Latin aper (“wild boar”), Proto-Germanic *eburaz (“boar”). Possibly Northern Indo-European substrate word.

Noun edit

*veprь m

boar, wild boar

Inflection edit

Declension of *veprь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*veprь	*vepra	*vepri
genitive	*vepra	*vepru	*veprь
dative	*vepru	*veprema	*vepremъ
accusative	*veprь	*vepra	*veprę̇
instrumental	veprьmь, vepremь^*	*veprema	*vepri
locative	*vepri	*vepru	*veprixъ
vocative	*vepru	*vepra	*vepri

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: вепрь (veprĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: вепръ (vepr), вепъръ (vepr), вѣпръ (věpr), вєпръ (vjepr)
    - Belarusian: вапе́р (vapjér), вепéр (vjepér), вя́пер (vjápjer), вяпéр (vjapér) (dialectal)
      - ⇒ Belarusian: вяпру́к (vjaprúk); япру́к (japrúk) (dialectal)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: вепéрь (vepérʹ)
      - ⇒ Carpathian Rusyn: вепри́ско (veprýsko)
    - Ukrainian: вепр (vepr); вéпер (véper), вепéр (vepér) (dialectal)
  - Russian: вепрь (veprʹ); вапéрь (vapérʹ), вапéр (vapér), вапи́рь (vapírʹ), вепéрь (vepérʹ), вепи́рь (vepírʹ), вапрю (vaprju), вапря́к (vaprják) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: вепрь (veprĭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰲⰵⱂⱃⱐ (veprĭ)
- Bulgarian: ве́пър (vépǎr)
- Macedonian: вепар (vepar)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ве̏пар
  
  Latin script: vȅpar
- Slovene: veper
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: vepř
  - Czech: vepř
- Polabian: vipr
- Old Polish: wieprz
  - Polish: wieprz
- Slovak: vepor
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: wjapś
  - Upper Sorbian: wjapř