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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korda
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kord-eh₂. Indo-European cognates include Proto-Germanic *hrōtą.
Noun
*korda f[1]
- pile of logs
Inflection
Declension of *korda (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *korda | *kordě | *kordy |
| Accusative | *kordǫ | *kordě | *kordy |
| Genitive | *kordy | *kordu | *kordъ |
| Locative | *kordě | *kordu | *kordasъ, *kordaxъ* |
| Dative | *kordě | *kordama | *kordamъ |
| Instrumental | *kordojǫ, *kordǫ** | *kordama | *kordami |
| Vocative | *kordo | *kordě | *kordy |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: корода (koroda, “pile of logs, wood-stack”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: крада (krada, “bonfire, stake”)
- Glagolitic: ⰽⱃⰰⰴⰰ (krada)
- Slovene: krada (“pile of logs, wood-stack, refining works”)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: krada (“tinder-box, torch”)
- Polish: króda (“hay-cock, stack of sheafs in a field”) (dialectal)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*korda”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 234: “f. ā ‘pile of logs’”