Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъrnъ

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kúrnas or *kúrˀnas, cognate with Latvian kur̃ns (“deaf”). Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”) + *-nъ, but in view of Sanskrit कीर्ण (kīrṇa, “injured, hurt”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀 (kar^əna, “deaf”), origin from *(s)kerH- (“to crop, to injure”) has been proposed instead.

*kъ̑rnъ

1. truncated, cut

   Synonyms: *kǫsъ, *xudъ

   → chipped, broken

   → impaired in some manner (tailless, hornless for animals; eyeless, earless, noseless, crippled for person)

• *kъrněti, *kъrniti (“to chip, to truncate; to impair”)
• *kъrnati (“to crop”)
• *kъrnakъ, *kъrnьda (“impaired person or animal”)
• *kъrnę (“male pig”)
• *kъrnatъ, *kъrnavъ (“physically impaired”)

• *kъrľь (“tick”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: кърнъ (kŭrnŭ)
    • Russian: ко́рный (kórnyj), корно́й (kornój)
    • Ukrainian: ко́рний (kórnyj) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: крънъ (krŭnŭ)
  • Bulgarian: крън (krǎn), кърн (kǎrn) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: крн (krn)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кр̑н

    Latin script: kȓn

  • Slovene: kr̀n (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Polish: kierny (dialectal)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ко́рный”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kъrnъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 236
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “крън нар., кърн диал.”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 47