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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skora
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *skarā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kor-eh₂, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Baltic cognates include Lithuanian skarà (“scrap”), Latvian skara (“scrap, curl, curly wool”), Lithuanian skìrti (“to divide”) (1st sg. skiriù), Latvian šk̨ir̃t (“to divide”).
Indo-European cognates include Proto-Germanic *skarō (whence English share), *skeraną, Latin scortum (“pelt”), Albanian harr (“to weed”), Albanian shker (“to rip up, to tear up”) (also shtjer).
Noun
*skorà f[1]
- bast, skin
Inflection
Declension of *skorà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *skorà | *skòrě | *skorỳ |
| Accusative | *skorǫ̀ | *skòrě | *skorỳ |
| Genitive | *skorỳ | *skorù | *skòrъ |
| Locative | *skorě̀ | *skorù | *skoràsъ, *skoràxъ* |
| Dative | *skorě̀ | *skoràma | *skoràmъ |
| Instrumental | *skoròjǫ, *skòrǫ** | *skoràma | *skoràmī |
| Vocative | *skoro | *skòrě | *skorỳ |
* -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
- *skorupa
Related terms
- *kora (“bark”)
- *koryto (“trough”)
Descendants
Per Derksen, some descendants show a conjugation parallel to *vòľa.
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: скора (skora)
- Belarusian: ску́ра (skúra)
- Russian: скора́ (skorá)
- Ukrainian: скі́ра (skíra), ско́ра (skóra)
- Old East Slavic: скора (skora)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: скора (skora)
- Glagolitic: ⱄⰽⱁⱃⰰ (skora)
- Slovene: skórja
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: skora, skura, skůra, škára
- Kashubian: skóra
- Polabian: sťöră
- Polish: skóra
- → Belarusian: шку́ра (škúra)
- → Russian: шку́ра (škúra)
- → Ukrainian: шку́ра (škúra), шкі́ра (škíra)
- Silesian: skōra
- Slovak: skura
- Slovincian:
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: skora
- Lower Sorbian: skóra, škóra
See also
- *koža (“skin, leather”, literally “goat (skin)”)
- *lubъ (“bast”)
- *lyko (“bast”)
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “скора”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “шкура”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 416
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*skorà (skòra)”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 452