Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zaporъ

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

Deverbal of *zaperti (“to lock”), from *za- +‎ *perti.

Noun

*zaporъ m

1. lock?

Declension

Declension of *zaporъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*zaporъ	*zapora	*zapori
genitive	*zapora	*zaporu	*zaporъ
dative	*zaporu	*zaporoma	*zaporomъ
accusative	*zaporъ	*zapora	*zapory
instrumental	*zaporъmь, *zaporomь*	*zaporoma	*zapory
locative	*zaporě	*zaporu	*zaporěxъ
vocative	*zapore	*zapora	*zapori

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: запо́р (zapór)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: запо́р (zapór)
  • Russian: запо́р (zapór)
  • Ukrainian: запо́р (zapór)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: запо̀р (zapòr)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: за́пор

    Latin script: zápor

  • Slovene: zapȍr (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: zápor
  • Polish: zapora f
  • Old Slovak: zápora f, zápor
    • Slovak: zápor

Further reading

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “запо̀р”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 604