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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krasa
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kreH-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz (whence Old Norse hrósa (“to brag, to boast”)).
Noun
*krāsà f[1][2]
- beauty
Inflection
Declension of *krāsà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *krāsà | *krãsě | *krāsỳ |
| Accusative | *krāsǫ̀ | *krãsě | *krāsỳ |
| Genitive | *krāsỳ | *krāsù | *krãsъ |
| Locative | *krāsě̀ | *krāsù | *krāsàsъ, *krāsàxъ* |
| Dative | *krāsě̀ | *krāsàma | *krāsàmъ |
| Instrumental | *krāsòjǫ, *krãsǫ** | *krāsàma | *krāsàmī |
| Vocative | *kraso | *krãsě | *krāsỳ |
* -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).
Related terms
- *krasiti
- *krasъka
Derived terms
- *krasьnъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: краса (krasa)
- Belarusian: краса́ (krasá)
- Russian: краса́ (krasá)
- Ukrainian: краса́ (krasá)
- Old East Slavic: краса (krasa)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: краса (krasa)
- Glagolitic: ⰽⱃⰰⱄⰰ (krasa)
- Bulgarian: кра́са (krása)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кра́са
- Latin: krasa
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: krása
- Czech: krása
- Old Polish: krasa
- Polish: krasa
- Slovak: krása
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: krasa
- Lower Sorbian: kšasa
- Old Czech: krása
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krasa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 95
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “краса”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*krāsà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 245: “f. ā (b)”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “krasa krasy”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 78; PR 135; MP 16)”