Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъrmъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъrmъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Possibly cognate with Latin cremor (“thick juice made by boiling grain”), Sanskrit करम्भ (karambha, “barley porridge, soup, mixture”) and Proto-Celtic *kurmi (“beer”).

Noun

*kъrmъ m

1. food, fodder

Inflection

Declension of *kъrmъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*kъrmъ	*kъrma	*kъrmi
Accusative	*kъrmъ	*kъrma	*kъrmy
Genitive	*kъrma	*kъrmu	*kъrmъ
Locative	*kъrmě	*kъrmu	*kъrměxъ
Dative	*kъrmu	*kъrmoma	*kъrmomъ
Instrumental	*kъrmъmь, *kъrmomь*	*kъrmoma	*kъrmy
Vocative	*kъrme	*kъrma	*kъrmi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: кърмъ (kŭrmŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: кормъ (korm)
      • Belarusian: корм (korm)
      • Ukrainian: корм (korm)
    • Russian: корм (korm)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: krm
  • Polish: karm
  • Slovak: krm
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kjarm
    • Upper Sorbian: korm

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “корм”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress