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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”).

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]

  1. bast, skin

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

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

See also

  • *koža (“skin, leather”, literally “goat (skin)”)
  • *lubъ (“bast”)
  • *lyko (“bast”)

Further reading

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*skorà (skòra)”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 452
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