Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/koriti

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 *kar-, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er-. Cognate with Lithuanian káirinti (“to provoke”) (with secondary ablaut), Latvian kaĩrinât, karinât (“to tease, to irritate”), Latin carināre (“to use abusive language”), Old High German harawēn (“to mock”), Ancient Greek κάρνη (kárnē, “damage, loss”) (Hesychius), Old Irish caire (“blame”).

*korìti^[1][2][3]

1. to reproach

• *kara (“punishment”)
• *karati (“to scold, to punish”)
• *korъ (“reproach?”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: корити (koriti)
    • Belarusian: кары́ць (karýcʹ)
    • Russian: кори́ть (korítʹ)
    • Ukrainian: кори́ти (korýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: корити (koriti)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: коря́ (korjá)
  • Macedonian: кори (kori)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̀рити

    Latin script: kòriti

  • Slovene: korīti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kořiti
    • Czech: kořit
  • Polish: korzyć
  • Slovak: koriť
  • Slovincian: kôrzëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: korić (usually pokorić)

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*koriti I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 74
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кор”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress