Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sorka

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 edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śárˀkāˀ. Cognate with Lithuanian šárka (magpie), Old Prussian sarke (magpie), Finnish harakka (magpie). Eventually connected with Russian со́рок (sórok, forty).[1]

The original form was *sorka, with non-etymological *-v- in some daughters introduced by analogy from *svьrčati (to whistle), possibly in order to avoid confusion with the (reflex of the) verb *sьrati (to defecate).

Noun edit

*sòrka f[2]

  1. magpie
Declension edit
Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 477
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сорока”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  • Gluhak, Alemko (1993), “Proto-Slavic/sorka”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 601

Etymology 2 edit

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian šar̃kas, švar̃kas (jacket, coat), Latvian svā̀rks (skirt) (-v- possibly is influence of švarùs (clean))

Noun edit

*sorka f

  1. shirt
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сорочка”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “сорочица, сорочька”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, сорочька column 467

References edit

  1. ^ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-russian/forty
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*svòrka; *sòrka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 477: “f. ā (a) ‘magpie’”