Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skora

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 skìrti (“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

• *skorupa

Related terms

• *kora (“bark”)
• *koryto (“trough”)

Descendants

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

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: скора (skora)
    • Russian: скора́ (skorá)
    • Ukrainian: скі́ра (skíra), ско́ра (skóra)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: скора (skora)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⰽⱁⱃⰰ (skora)

  • Slovene: skórja
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: skora, skura, skůra, škára
  • Kashubian: skóra
  • Polabian: sťöră
  • Polish: skóra
    • → Belarusian: шку́ра (škúra)
    • → Russian: шку́ра (škúra)
    • → Ukrainian: шку́ра (škúra), шкі́ра (škíra)
  • Silesian: skōra
  • Slovak: skura
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: skora
    • Lower Sorbian: skóra, škóra

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 [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “шкура”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 416