Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skora

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 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-Balto-Slavic *skarā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kor-eh₂, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of *korà.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian skarà (“scrap”), Latvian skara (“scrap, curl, curly wool”), Lithuanian ski̇̀rti (“to divide”) (1st sg. skiriù), Latvian šk̨ir̃t (“to divide”).

Indo-European cognates include Proto-Germanic *skarō (whence English share), *skeraną, Latin scortum (“pelt”), Albanian harr (“to weed”), Albanian shker (“to rip up, to tear up”) (also shtjer).

Noun

*skorà f

  1. bast, skin

Inflection

Declension of *skorà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *skorà *skòrě *skorỳ
genitive *skorỳ *skorù *skòrъ
dative *skorě̀ *skoràma *skoràmъ
accusative *skorǫ̀ *skòrě *skorỳ
instrumental *skoròjǫ, *skòrǫ** *skoràma *skoràmī
locative *skorě̀ *skorù *skoràsъ, *skoràxъ*
vocative *skoro *skòrě *skorỳ

* -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).

Derived terms

Descendants

Per Derksen, some descendants show a conjugation parallel to *vòľa.

See also

  • *koža (“skin, leather”, literally “goat (skin)”)
  • *lubъ (“bast”)
  • *lyko (“bast”)

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “скора”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “шкура”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 416
  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*skorà (skòra)”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 452
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