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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skorupa
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *skora (“bast, skin”) + *-upa.
Noun
*skorupa f
- crust?, shell?
Declension
Declension of *skorupa (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *skorupa | *skorupě | *skorupy |
Accusative | *skorupǫ | *skorupě | *skorupy |
Genitive | *skorupy | *skorupu | *skorupъ |
Locative | *skorupě | *skorupu | *skorupasъ, *skorupaxъ* |
Dative | *skorupě | *skorupama | *skorupamъ |
Instrumental | *skorupojǫ, *skorupǫ** | *skorupama | *skorupami |
Vocative | *skorupo | *skorupě | *skorupy |
* -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).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: скоролупа (skorolupa), скоролупля (skoroluplja), скоролуща (skorolušča)
- Belarusian: шкорлупа́ (škorlupá), скору́па (skorúpa)
- Russian: скорлупа́ (skorlupá)
- Ukrainian: шкору́па (škorúpa)
- Old East Slavic: скоролупа (skorolupa), скоролупля (skoroluplja), скоролуща (skorolušča)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: скралупа (skralupa), скралупля (skraluplja), скралуща (skralušta)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ско̏рӯп m
- Latin: skȍrūp m
- Slovene: skralûp, skorlûp, skorlúpa, škorlûp, škorlúpa (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: skořupina
- Czech: skořápka, škraloup
- Polish: skorupa
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: škórpa m, škórр
- Old Czech: skořupina
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “скорлупа́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress