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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kurica
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *kurъ (“cock”) + *-ica.
Noun
*kurica f
- hen
Inflection
Declension of *kurica (soft a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *kurica | *kurici | *kuricę̇ |
Accusative | *kuricǫ | *kurici | *kuricę̇ |
Genitive | *kuricę̇ | *kuricu | *kuricь |
Locative | *kurici | *kuricu | *kuricasъ, *kuricaxъ* |
Dative | *kurici | *kuricama | *kuricamъ |
Instrumental | *kuricejǫ, *kuricǫ** | *kuricama | *kuricami |
Vocative | *kurice | *kurici | *kuricę̇ |
* -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
- *kurъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ку́рыца (kúryca)
- Russian: ку́рица (kúrica)
- South Slavic:
- Slovene: kurica
- West Slavic:
- Czech: kurica (dialectal)
- Polish: kurzyca (15th-17th c.)
- Slovincian: kʉ̃řäcă
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kurica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 257