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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kurъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Onomatopoeic; also interjection *kury!. Compare *kokotъ (“rooster”), *kokošь (“hen”). Related to Lithuanian kurtinỹs (“grouse”), Greek κούρκος (koúrkos, “turkey”) (probably a Slavic loanword). A connection with Slovak kúriť (“to run”)[1], Lithuanian kùrti (“to run”), else meaning “to smoke, to kindle” (☞ *kūrìti), is also possible. Compare Bulgarian тока́чка (tokáčka, “guinea fowl”), Russian токова́ть (tokovátʹ, “to display courtship (for birds)”) from Proto-Slavic *tokati (“to flow, to propel (a fluid)”).
Noun
*kùrъ m[2][3][4]
- cock, rooster
- Synonyms: *pětьlъ, *pětuxъ, *kokotъ
- (figurative) cock, male genitalia
Declension
Declension of *kùrъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *kùrъ | *kùra | *kùri |
| Accusative | *kùrъ | *kùra | *kùry |
| Genitive | *kùra | *kùru | *kùrъ |
| Locative | *kùrě | *kùru | *kùrě̄xъ |
| Dative | *kùru | *kùroma | *kùromъ |
| Instrumental | *kùrъmь, *kùromь* | *kùroma | *kùrȳ |
| Vocative | *kùre | *kùra | *kùri |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *kuropъty (“bird of family Phasianidae”)
- *kurьcь (“capon”)
- *kurę (diminutive)
- *kurętina (“domestic fowl”)
- *kura, *kurica (“hen”)
- *kurъka, *čurъka (“wild fowl”)
- → Romanian: curcan m, curcă f (“turkey”)
- *kury (“whore”) (pejorative)
- *kurьjь, *kurьnъ (“fowline”)
Related terms
- *kъrkati, *kurkati (“to crow”)
- *kъrkoriti (“to croak”)
- *xъrtъ (“hound”) (possibly)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Russian: кур (kur) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: кур (kur)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: коуръ (kurŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⰽⱆⱃⱏ (kurŭ)
- Bulgarian: кур (kur)
- Macedonian: кур (kur)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ку̏р
- Latin: kȕr
- Slovene: kȕr (tonal orthography) (obsolete)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kur, kúr
- Czech: kour, kur
- Kashubian: kùr
- Polish: kur
- Slovak: kúr
- Slovincian: kʉ̇́r
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kur
- Upper Sorbian: kur
- Old Czech: kur, kúr
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “кур”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kurъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 13 (*kroměžirъ – kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 129
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1986), “кур”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 142
References
- Machek, Václav (1968), “kur”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 308
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kurъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 257: “m. o ‘cock’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “kurъ kura”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a hane (SA 166; PR 131)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “kurec”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “od pslovan. *kűrъ ‛petelin’”