Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korda

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

From Proto-Indo-European *kord-eh₂. Indo-European cognates include Proto-Germanic *hrōtą.

Noun

*korda f

pile of logs

Inflection

Declension of *korda (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*korda	*kordě	*kordy
genitive	*kordy	*kordu	*kordъ
dative	*kordě	*kordama	*kordamъ
accusative	*kordǫ	*kordě	*kordy
instrumental	kordojǫ, kordǫ^**	*kordama	*kordami
locative	*kordě	*kordu	kordasъ, kordaxъ^*
vocative	*kordo	*kordě	*kordy

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: корода (koroda, “pile of logs, wood-stack”)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: крада (krada, “bonfire, stake”)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰽⱃⰰⰴⰰ (krada)
- Slovene: krada (“pile of logs, wood-stack, refining works”)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: krada (“tinder-box, torch”)
- Polish: króda (“hay-cock, stack of sheafs in a field”) (dialectal)

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*korda”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 234: “f. ā ‘pile of logs’”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*korda”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 234: “f. ā ‘pile of logs’”