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. feminine of *kurъ (“rooster”): hen

Declension

Declension of *kùra (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kùra	*kùrě	*kùry
genitive	*kùry	*kùru	*kùrъ
dative	*kùrě	*kùrama	*kùramъ
accusative	*kùrǫ	*kùrě	*kùry
instrumental	*kùrojǫ, *kùrǭ**	*kùrama	*kùramī
locative	*kùrě	*kùru	*kùrasъ, *kùraxъ*
vocative	*kùro	*kùrě	*kùry

^* -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).

Related forms

• *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 (archaic), koura (dialectal)
  • Polabian: ťauro
  • Polish: kura
  • Slovak: kura
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kura
    • Upper Sorbian: kura

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kura I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
• Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎^[1], volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., page 508
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ку́ра”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Etymology 2

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

Noun

*kurà f (East Slavic)

1. duststorm, blizzard

   Synonym: *metělь

Declension

Declension of *kurà (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kurà	*kurě	*kury
genitive	*kury	*kuru	*kurъ
dative	*kurě	*kurama	*kuramъ
accusative	*kurǫ	*kurě	*kury
instrumental	*kurojǫ, *kurǫ**	*kurama	*kurami
locative	*kurě	*kuru	*kurasъ, *kuraxъ*
vocative	*kuro	*kurě	*kury

^* -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

• *kurišče (augmentative)

Related forms

• *kurь, *kurina (“fume”)
• *kurivo (“unit of heat”)
• *kuridlo (“censer, smoke”)
• *kurьmo (“smoke cloud, haze”)
• *skvara (“conflagration, scorch”) (possibly)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: кура́ (kurá) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: кура́ (kurá) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kura II”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 118
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кура́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress