Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kuriti

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 kùrti (“to light, to kindle, to make, to create”) (1sg. kuriù), Latvian kur̃t (“to light, to kindle”) (1sg. kuŗu). Balto-Slavic words are often compared to Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri, “coal”), Old Norse hyrr (“fire”). Vasmer adds Old Armenian կրակ (krak, “fire”) from *kurak-.

Chernykh suggests an Indo-European root *ker-. Derksen reconstructs a putative Indo-European root *kerH-, in which case the Germanic cognates are correct, as well as probably Latin carbō (“charcoal”).

Another possibility suggested by Derksen: from Proto-Indo-European *kʷr̥-, zero grade of *kʷer- (hence cognate with Sanskrit कृणोति (kṛṇóti, “to do, to make”) but probably not with the above Germanic cognates), although a laryngeal would be expected due to the East Baltic accentuation.

*kūrìti^[1][2]

1. to smoke

• *kuřenьje

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: кꙋрити (kuriti)
    • Belarusian: куры́ць (kurýcʹ)
    • Russian: кури́ть (kurítʹ)
      • → Kildin Sami: кӯррэ (kūrre)
    • Ukrainian: кури́ти (kurýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: коуритъ (kuritŭ, 3sg.)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ку́рити (dialectal)

    Latin script: kúriti (dialectal)

  • Slovene: kurīti, kúriti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Kashubian: kùrzëc
  • Old Czech: kúřiti
    • Czech: kouřit
  • Polish: kurzyć
  • Silesian: kurzić
  • Slovak: kúriť
  • Slovincian: kúrzëc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kurić
    • Lower Sorbian: kuriś

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “кури́ть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 456
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кури́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kuriti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 123