Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korkъ

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.

Cognate with Lithuanian kárka (“shank (part of leg)”), with further origin obscure, though perhaps ultimately from some extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn”). Per Trubachyov, cited by the Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary, equivalent to Proto-Balto-Slavic *kar- (“to hang”) +‎ *-kъ, i.e. originally "something hanging". From the Proto-Balto-Slavic root, Trubachyov also derives Lithuanian karti (“to hang”) and Latvian karcināt (“to wriggle, to twist”), among others. Pokorny derives it from Proto-Indo-European *kr(o)k-sko (“arm”), also comparing Sanskrit किष्कु (kiṣku, “forearm”).

*korkъ m

1. leg, limb

   Synonym: *nogà

2. step, pace

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old East Slavic: окорокъ (okorokŭ)
    • Belarusian: акарак (akarak)
    • Russian: о́корок (ókorok)
    • Ukrainian: о́корок (ókorok)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: длъгокра́къ (dlŭgokrákŭ)
  • Bulgarian: крак (krak)
  • Macedonian: крак (krak)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: krȃk

    Cyrillic script: кра̑к

  • Slovene: krȃk (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: krok
    • Czech: krok
  • Old Polish: *krok
    • Polish: krok
      • → Belarusian: крок (krok)
      • → Ukrainian: крок (krok)
    • Silesian: krok
  • Old Slovak: krok
    • Slovak: krok
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: krok

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: crac

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “о́корок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress