Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kory

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-Indo-European *k(ʷ)or(H)-en-. Cognate with Lithuanian kẽras (“tree-stump, stub, bush, shrub”) and Latvian cers (“bush, knotty root of a tree”).

*kȍry m^[1][2][3]

1. root

• *koreňakъ (“native, one from the root”)
• *koręcь (“snag, trunk”)
• *korěnь
• *korěňakъ

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ко́рань (kóranʹ)
  • Russian: ко́рень (kórenʹ)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: корїнь (korjinʹ)
  • Ukrainian: ко́рінь (kórinʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: корень (korenĭ)
    • Bulgarian: ко́рен (kóren)
  • Macedonian: ко́рен (kóren)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̏ре̄н, ко̏рије̄н

    Latin: kȍrēn, kȍrijēn

  • Slovene: korẹ̑n (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kořen
    • Czech: kořen
  • Kashubian: kòrzéń
  • Polish: korzeń
  • Slovak: koreň
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kórjeń
    • Upper Sorbian: korjeń

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ко́рень”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*korenь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 62
• Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., pages 493–564