Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/korukos

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 This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic

Etymology

Related to Latin corium (“skin, hide, leather”)[1] and Sanskrit चर्मन् (carman, “skin, pelt”)[2] Ancient Greek κώρυκος (kṓrukos, “leather sack”) looks almost identical except for the vowel length mismatch (which makes Stifter label such a comparison as "deceptive").[3]

Noun

*korukos m

  1. currach; a boat covered in animal leather

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative *korukos *korukou *korukoi
vocative *koruke *korukou *korukoi
accusative *korukom *korukou *korukoms
genitive *korukī *korukous *korukom
dative *korukūi *korukobom *korukobos
locative *korukei *? *?
instrumental *korukū *korukobim *korukūis

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *korug
  • Old Irish: curach
  • → Latin: curucus (borrowed from Insular Celtic)

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*koruko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217
  2. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “corucos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 127
  3. ^ Stifter, David (2023) “With the Back to the Ocean: The Celtic Maritime Vocabulary”, in Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen and Eske Willerslev, editors, The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, page 187
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