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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kura

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

*kurъ (“rooster”) +‎ *-a.

Noun

*kùra f[1]

  1. feminine of *kurъ (“rooster”): hen
Declension
  • *kurica (“hen”)
  • *kurę (“chicken”)
    • *kurętina (“fowl”)
  • *kury (“whore”)
Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: кура (kura)
    • Russian: ку́ра (kúra)
    • Ukrainian: курка (kurka)
  • South Slavic:
    • Slovene: kúra (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: kura
    • Polabian: ťauro
    • Polish: kura
    • Slovak: kura
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

References

  1. Snoj, Marko (2016), “kúra¹”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *kűra ‛kokoš’”

Etymology 2

Action noun of *kuriti (“to smoke”) +‎ *-a.

Noun

*kurà f (East Slavic)

  1. duststorm, blizzard
    Synonym: *metělь
Declension
Derived terms
  • *kurišče (augmentative)
  • *kurь, *kurina (“fume”)
  • *kurivo (“unit of heat”)
  • *kuridlo (“censer, smoke”)
  • *kurьmo (“smoke cloud, haze”)
  • *skvara (“conflagration, scorch”) (possibly)
Descendants

Further reading

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