Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/korica

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 *kora +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*korica f

1. bark

Inflection

Declension of *korica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*korica	*korici	*koricę̇
genitive	*koricę̇	*koricu	*koricь
dative	*korici	*koricama	*koricamъ
accusative	*koricǫ	*korici	*koricę̇
instrumental	*koricejǫ, *koricǫ**	*koricama	*koricami
locative	*korici	*koricu	*koricasъ, *koricaxъ*
vocative	*korice	*korici	*koricę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

• *kora

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: корица (korica)
    • Belarusian: карыца (karyca)
    • Russian: кори́ца (koríca)
    • Ukrainian: кориця (korycja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: корицѧ (koricę) Npl.

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⱁⱃⰻⱌⱔ (koricę)

  • Bulgarian: кори́ца (koríca)
  • Macedonian: корица (korica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̏рица

    Latin script: kȍrica

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): kȍrice
  • Slovene: korica
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: skořice, kořice
  • Slovak: korica

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*korica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кори́ца”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress