Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/prǫtъ

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

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to spring, to sprout”) + *-ǫtъ, related to Proto-Slavic *prędati (“to lead”), Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to prance”).

Vasmer and Machek suggest original meaning leap → shoot, sprout with similar semantic shift as Russian побе́г (pobég, “flight; fig. sprout”). Possibly related to Proto-Slavic *prytь (“outbreak”), Proto-Germanic *sprutô (“sprout”).

Noun

*prǫ̑tъ m

1. rod, bar

   Synonyms: *palica, *žьrdь, *drǫgъ, *ščapъ

Declension

Declension of *prǫ̑tъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*prǫ̑tъ	*prǫ̑ta	*prǫ̑ti
genitive	*prǫ̑ta	*prǫtù	*prǫ̃tъ
dative	*prǫ̑tu	*prǫtomà	*prǫtòmъ
accusative	*prǫ̑tъ	*prǫ̑ta	*prǫ̑ty
instrumental	*prǫ̑tъmь, *prǫ̑tomь*	*prǫtomà	*prǫtý
locative	*prǫ̑tě	*prǫtù	*prǫtě̃xъ
vocative	*prǫte	*prǫ̑ta	*prǫ̑ti

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

Derived terms

• *prǫtьcь, *prǫtьčica (diminutive)
• *prǫtъka (“stick”)

Related terms

• *paportь, *porportь (“fern”) (possibly)
• *prǫdъ (“bank”)
• *prǫgъ (“elastic object; locust”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: прут (prut)
  • Russian: прут (prut)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: прут (prut)
  • Ukrainian: прут (prut)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: прѫтъ (prǫtŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⱘⱅⱏ (prǫtŭ)

  • Bulgarian: прът (prǎt), прънт (prǎnt) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: прат (prat)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пру̑т

    Latin script: prȗt

  • Slovene: prọ̑t (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: prut
    • Czech: prut
  • Kashubian: prãt
  • Polabian: prǫt
  • Polish: pręt
  • Slovak: prút
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pšut
    • Upper Sorbian: prut

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “прут”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “прът¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 830