Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kurъčę

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 *kurъka (“chicken”) +‎ *-ę, from *kura.

Noun

*kurъčę n^[1]

chick, young chicken

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *куръчѧ (*kurŭčę)
  - Old Ruthenian: курча́ (kurčá)
    - Belarusian: курча́ (kurčá)
    - Ukrainian: курча́ (kurčá)
  - Middle Russian: курчѧ́ (kurčjá) (16-18ᵗʰ c.)
    - Russian: курча́ (kurčá) (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: kùrczã
- Polish: kurczę
- Slovak: kurče (dialectal)

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kurъčę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 130

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kurъčę”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 130

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