Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/perpelъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Has been compared to Lithuanian рi̇́ераlа, pùtpelė (“quail”), Latvian paipala (“quail”), Old Prussian penpalo (“quail”), Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”), Old English fīfealde (“butterfly”) and Old High German fîfaltra (“butterfly”).
Noun
*perpelъ m
- quail (bird)
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *perpelъ | *perpela | *perpeli |
| genitive | *perpela | *perpelu | *perpelъ |
| dative | *perpelu | *perpeloma | *perpelomъ |
| accusative | *perpelъ | *perpela | *perpely |
| instrumental | *perpelъmь, *perpelomь* | *perpeloma | *perpely |
| locative | *perpelě | *perpelu | *perpelěxъ |
| vocative | *perpele | *perpela | *perpeli |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- ⇒ Bulgarian: пре́пелица (prépelica) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Macedonian: препелица (prepelica)
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: пре̏пелица
- Latin script: prȅpelica
- ⇒ Slovene: prepelíca (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- ⇒ Old Czech: křěpelicě
- ⇒ Czech: křepelka
- ⇒ Old Polish: przepierzyca, przepiórka
- Polish: przepiórka
- Silesian: przepiōrka
- Pomeranian:
- ⇒ Kashubian: przepierzëca, przepiórka
- ⇒ Slovak: prepelica
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: paśpula
- Upper Sorbian: pocpula
- ⇒ Old Czech: křěpelicě
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: prepeliță
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пе́репел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2021), “*perpelъ/*perpelь(?)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 42 (*peča – *perzъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 256