Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ǫpyrь

Etymology
. Skok gives two hypotheses: Mel’nyčuk offers a different explanation, a Slavic construction from, “not burned”, with a privative prefix attached to a root meaning “fire”. The word would then indicate an uncremated corpse. He also lists alternative suggestions that others had proposed: a possible connection with, as above; or from as a coinage related to vrěpiti (“to cling”), supposedly because a vampire bites and clings to its victims.
 * 1) From a northern  language, in the form  or . Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all from, possibly from . Vasmer finds this phonetically doubtful.
 * 2) A Slavic construction, from, “flyer” with a privative prefix. Compare . According to this hypothesis *ǫpyrь could have originated as a taboo for  (cf. ).

Mel’nyčuk further proposes that the forms with initial vam- were derived by way of Old Church Slavonic with prothetic *в-, borrowed into Byzantine Greek as  and then borrowed back into the South Slavic languages.

Noun

 * 1) vampire

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