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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/perpelъ
Proto-Slavic
    
    Etymology
    
Has been compared to Lithuanian рíераlа, pùtpelė (“quail”), Latvian paipala (“quail”), Old Prussian penpalo (“quail”), Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”), Old English fīfealde (“butterfly”) and Old High German fîfaltra (“butterfly”).
Declension
    
Declension of *perpelъ (hard o-stem)
| 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:
- ⇒ Czech: křepelka
- ⇒ Old Polish: przepierzyca, przepiórka
- Polish: przepiórka
 
- ⇒ Slovak: prepelica
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: paśpula
- Upper Sorbian: pocpula
 
 
- 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
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