Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skorupa

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 *skora (“bast, skin”) + *-upa.

Noun

*skorupa f

1. crust?, shell?

Declension

Declension of *skorupa (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*skorupa	*skorupě	*skorupy
genitive	*skorupy	*skorupu	*skorupъ
dative	*skorupě	*skorupama	*skorupamъ
accusative	*skorupǫ	*skorupě	*skorupy
instrumental	*skorupojǫ, *skorupǫ**	*skorupama	*skorupami
locative	*skorupě	*skorupu	*skorupasъ, *skorupaxъ*
vocative	*skorupo	*skorupě	*skorupy

^* -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:
  • Old East Slavic: скоролупа (skorolupa), скоролупля (skoroluplja), скоролуща (skorolušča)
    • Belarusian: шкарлупа́ (škarlupá), скару́па (skarúpa)
    • Russian: скорлупа́ (skorlupá)
    • Ukrainian: шкору́па (škorúpa)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: скралупа (skralupa), скралупля (skraluplja), скралуща (skralušta)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ско̏рӯп m

    Latin script: skȍrūp m

  • Slovene: skralûp, skorlûp, skorlúpa, škorlûp, škorlúpa (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: skořupina
    • Czech: skořápka, škraloup
  • Polish: skorupa
  • Slovak: škrupina
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: škórpa m, škórр

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “скорлупа́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress