Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korda

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-Indo-European *kord-eh₂. Indo-European cognates include Proto-Germanic *hrōtą.

Noun

*korda f

1. pile of logs

Inflection

Declension of *korda (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*korda	*kordě	*kordy
genitive	*kordy	*kordu	*kordъ
dative	*kordě	*kordama	*kordamъ
accusative	*kordǫ	*kordě	*kordy
instrumental	*kordojǫ, *kordǫ**	*kordama	*kordami
locative	*kordě	*kordu	*kordasъ, *kordaxъ*
vocative	*kordo	*kordě	*kordy

^* -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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: корода (koroda, “pile of logs, wood-stack”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: крада (krada, “bonfire, stake”)

    Glagolitic: ⰽⱃⰰⰴⰰ (krada)

  • Slovene: krada (“pile of logs, wood-stack, refining works”)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: krada (“tinder-box, torch”)
  • Polish: króda (“hay-cock, stack of sheafs in a field”) (dialectal)