Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pьrsty

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 *pьrstъ (“finger”) +‎ *-y?

Noun

*pьrsty m

Inflection

Declension of *pьrsty (n-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pьrsty	*pьrsteni	*pьrstene
genitive	*pьrstene	*pьrstenu	*pьrstenъ
dative	*pьrsteni	*pьrstenьma	*pьrstenьmъ
accusative	*pьrstenь	*pьrsteni	*pьrsteni
instrumental	*pьrstenьmь	*pьrstenьma	*pьrstenьmi
locative	*pьrstene	*pьrstenu	*pьrstenьxъ
vocative	*pьrsty	*pьrsteni	*pьrstene

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: пьрстьнь (pĭrstĭnĭ), перстень (perstenĭ)
  - Belarusian: пе́рсцень (pjérscjenʹ)
  - Russian: пе́рстень (pérstenʹ)
  - Ukrainian: пе́рстень (pérstenʹ), пе́рстінь (pérstinʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: пръстень (prŭstenĭ), прьстень (prĭstenĭ)?
- Bulgarian: пръ́стен (prǎ́sten)
- Macedonian: прстен (prsten)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пр̏сте̄н, пр̏сте̑н
  
  Latin script: pȑs̄ten, pȑstȇn
- Slovene: pŕstan (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: prsten
  - Czech: prsten
- Kashubian: pierscéń, piestrzéń
- Old Polish: pierścień, pierzcień, pierzścień, pirścień
  - Polish: pierścień
  - Silesian: piestrzyń
- Polabian: parstén
- Slovak: prsteň

References

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “перст”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “перст”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 25
Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “пьрстьнь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1772

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