Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pormъ

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-Indo-European *pórmos, also found in Proto-Germanic *farmaz (“fare; load, cargo”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to cross over”).

Noun

*pormъ m

1. ferry

Declension

Declension of *pormъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pormъ	*porma	*pormi
genitive	*porma	*pormu	*pormъ
dative	*pormu	*pormoma	*pormomъ
accusative	*pormъ	*porma	*pormy
instrumental	*pormъmь, *pormomь*	*pormoma	*pormy
locative	*pormě	*pormu	*porměxъ
vocative	*porme	*porma	*pormi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: поромъ (poromŭ)
    • Belarusian: паро́м (paróm)
    • Russian: поро́м (poróm), паро́м (paróm)
    • Ukrainian: поро́м (poróm)
• South Slavic:
  • Russian Church Slavonic: прамъ (pramŭ)
  • Bulgarian: прам (pram)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пра̏м

    Latin script: prȁm

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: *prám
    • Czech: prám
    • → Middle High German: prâm
    • → Middle Low German: prām
      • German Low German: Prahm
        • → German: Prahm
      • → Estonian: praam
      • → Middle Dutch: praem
        • Dutch: praam
          • → English: praam, pram
          • → Finnish: proomu
      • → Old Norse: prámr
        • Danish: pram
          • → Icelandic: prammi
        • Icelandic: prámur
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: pram
        • Swedish: pråm
  • Polish: prom
  • Slovak: prám
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: prama

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “Proto-Slavic/pormъ”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 483
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “паро́м”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поро́м”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress