πράσον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally connected with Latin porrum (leek) and derived from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥so- (leek). But Beekes does not rule out a Pre-Greek origin.

Noun

πρᾰ́σον (práson) n (genitive πρᾰ́σου); second declension

  1. leek, Allium ampeloprasum (syn. Allium porrum)

Declension

Derived terms

  • ἀμπελόπρασον (ampelóprason)
  • πράσινος (prásinos)
  • πράσιος (prásios)

Descendants

  • Greek: πράσο (práso)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پراصا (prasa), پراصه (prasa)
      • Turkish: pırasa
      • → Armenian: փըրասա (pʿərasa), փըռասա (pʿəṙasa)
      • → Middle Armenian: փռասա (pʿṙasa)
  • → Abkhaz: а-прасқьиа (ā-ṗrāsk̍iā)
  • → Albanian: presh
  • → Coptic: ⲡⲗⲁⲥⲥⲁ (plassa)
  • → Georgian: პრასა (ṗrasa)
    • → Bats: პრას (ṗras)
    • → Ossetian: прасӕ (prasæ), праса (prasa)
  • → Laz: პრასა (ṗrasa), პრასკა (ṗrasḳa), პროსკჲა́ (ṗrosḳyá), პოსკჲა́ (ṗosḳyá)
  • → Old Armenian: պրաս (pras), պրախ (prax), պրասխ (prasx)
    • Middle Armenian: պռաս (pṙas)
    • Armenian: պրաս (pras)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: прасъ (prasŭ), празъ (prazŭ)

References

  • πράσον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • πράσον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πράσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • leek idem, page 484.
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), պրաս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 114a
  • Walde, Alois (1927), Pokorny, Julius, editor, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Berlin: de Gruyter, page 84
  • Boisacq, Émile (1916), πράσον”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 810
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1229
  • Walde, Alois (1910), porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602

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