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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kosъ

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 1

Per Derksen, probably from an earlier *kopsъ, related to Ancient Greek κόψιχος (kópsikhos), κόσσυφος (kóssuphos), although the variation in the Greek forms suggests a pre-Greek substratum word.

Noun

*kȍsъ m[1][2]

  1. blackbird
    Synonym: *drozdъ
Declension
Derived terms
  • *Kosovo (“Kosovo (region in the Balkans)”)
Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: кос (kos) (archaic, dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: кіс (kis) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: kos
      • Czech: kos
        • Bohemian (Chod dialect): kůs
    • Polish: kos
    • Slovak: kos (dialectal)
    • Sorbian:
Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kȏsъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 239: “m. o (c) ‘blackbird’”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “kọ̑s²”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*kȍsъ”

Etymology 2

Continues Proto-Indo-European *kosós (possibly Proto-Indo-European *kosús, based on the doublet *kosvenъ), from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scratch”) or depalatalized Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to castrate, to prune”).

Adjective

*kȍsъ[1][2]

  1. skew, slanted
    Synonym: *krivъ
    Antonym: *otъvěsьnъ
Declension
  • *česati (“to scratch, to comb”)
  • *kosa (“scythe”)
  • *kasati (“to tort, to concern”)
  • *kosъkъ (“slightly tilted, out of balance”)
  • *kosьnъ (“curved, tilted”)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: косъ (kosŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic: косъ (kosŭ)
      Glagolitic: ⰽⱁⱄⱏ (kosŭ)
    • Bulgarian: ко́с (kós)
    • Macedonian: кос (kos)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: ко̑с
      Latin: kȏs
    • Slovene: kọ̑s
  • West Slavic:
Further reading

References

  1. Olander, Thomas (2001), “kosъ kosa koso”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c skæv (PR 138)”
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016), “kọ̑s³”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*kȍsъ”
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