Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/porgъ

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *parˀgas, from Proto-Indo-European *porgʰos. Cognate with Lithuanian pérgas (“fishing canoe”).

Noun

pòrgъ m

1. threshold, doorstep

Declension

Declension of *porgъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*porgъ	*pòrga	*pòrdzi
genitive	*pòrga	*pòrgu	*pòrgъ
dative	*pòrgu	*pòrgoma	*pòrgomъ
accusative	*porgъ	*pòrga	*pòrgy
instrumental	*pòrgъmь, *pòrgomь*	*pòrgoma	*pòrgȳ
locative	*pòrdzě	*pòrgu	*pòrdzě̄xъ
vocative	*pòrže	*pòrga	*pòrdzi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: порогъ (porogŭ)
    • Belarusian: паро́г (paróh)
    • Russian: поро́г (poróg)
    • Ukrainian: порі́г (poríh)
      • → Polish: poroh
    • Carpathian Rusyn: пориг (poryh)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: прагъ (pragŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⰰⰳⱏ (pragŭ)

  • Bulgarian: праг (prag)
  • Macedonian: праг (prag)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: праг

    Latin script: prag

  • Slovene: prag
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: práh
    • Czech: práh
  • Kashubian: próg
  • ⇒ Kashubian: zôparg
  • Polabian: porg
  • Polish: próg
  • Silesian: prōg
  • Slovak: prah
  • Sorbian:

    Lower Sorbian: prog

    Upper Sorbian: proh

Borrowings from some intermediate language:

• → Albanian: prag
• → Romanian: prag

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поро́г”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*porgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 413