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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kura
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology 1
*kurъ (“rooster”) + *-a.
Noun
*kùra f[1]
- feminine of *kurъ (“rooster”): hen
Declension
Declension of *kùra (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *kùra | *kùrě | *kùry |
| Accusative | *kùrǫ | *kùrě | *kùry |
| Genitive | *kùry | *kùru | *kùrъ |
| Locative | *kùrě | *kùru | *kùrasъ, *kùraxъ* |
| Dative | *kùrě | *kùrama | *kùramъ |
| Instrumental | *kùrojǫ, *kùrǭ** | *kùrama | *kùramī |
| Vocative | *kùro | *kùrě | *kùry |
* -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 forms
- *kurica (“hen”)
- *kurę (“chicken”)
- *kurętina (“fowl”)
- *kury (“whore”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: кура (kura)
- Russian: ку́ра (kúra)
- Ukrainian: курка (kurka)
- South Slavic:
- Slovene: kúra (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: kura
- Polabian: ťauro
- Polish: kura
- Slovak: kura
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kura
- Upper Sorbian: kura
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kura I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
- Verweij, Arno (1994), “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics), volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 508
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ку́ра”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “kúra¹”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *kűra ‛kokoš’”
Etymology 2
Action noun of *kuriti (“to smoke”) + *-a.
Noun
*kurà f (East Slavic)
- duststorm, blizzard
- Synonym: *metělь
Declension
Declension of *kurà (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *kurà | *kurě | *kury |
| Accusative | *kurǫ | *kurě | *kury |
| Genitive | *kury | *kuru | *kurъ |
| Locative | *kurě | *kuru | *kurasъ, *kuraxъ* |
| Dative | *kurě | *kurama | *kuramъ |
| Instrumental | *kurojǫ, *kurǫ** | *kurama | *kurami |
| Vocative | *kuro | *kurě | *kury |
* -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).
Derived terms
- *kurišče (augmentative)
Related forms
- *kurь, *kurina (“fume”)
- *kurivo (“unit of heat”)
- *kuridlo (“censer, smoke”)
- *kurьmo (“smoke cloud, haze”)
- *skvara (“conflagration, scorch”) (possibly)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: кура́ (kurá) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: кура́ (kurá) (dialectal)
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kura II”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “кура́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress