Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/męsarь

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

Alternative reconstructions edit

*męšarь (< + *-jarь)

Etymology edit

From *męso (“meat”) +‎ *-arь.

Noun edit

*męsarь m^[1]

butcher (a person who prepares and sells meat)

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *мѧсарь (*męsarĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: *мѧса́ръ (*mjasár)
    - Ukrainian: м'яса́рь (mʺjasárʹ) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: меса́р (mesár)
  - ⇒ Bulgarian: меса́рин (mesárin)
- Macedonian: месар (mesar)
- Old Serbo-Croatian: mesar (14ᵗʰ c.)
  - Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ме̏са̄р
    
    Latin script: mȅsār
- Slovene: mesár (tonal orthography), mesar (archaic), mȩsâr (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Czech: masař
  - → Polish: masarz
  - → Silesian: masŏrz
- Old Polish: mięsiarz
  - Polish: mięsiarz
- Slovak: mäsiar (dialectal)
- Slovincian: mãsorz

References edit

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męs⁽'⁾arь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 6

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męs⁽'⁾arь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 6

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