Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kokošь

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

Of onomatopoeic origin; compare also *kurъ (“rooster”), *kura (“hen”). The masculine of this *kokotъ (“rooster”).

Noun

*kȍkošь f

1. hen (female chicken)

Declension

Declension of *kȍkošь (i-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kȍkošь	*kȍkoši	*kȍkoši
genitive	*kokoší	*kokošьjù, *kokošu*	*kokošь̀jь
dative	*kȍkoši	*kokošьmà	*kȍkošьmъ
accusative	*kȍkošь	*kȍkoši	*kȍkoši
instrumental	*kokošьjǫ́	*kokošьmà	*kokošьmì
locative	*kokoší	*kokošьjù, *kokošu*	*kȍkošьxъ
vocative	*kokoši	*kȍkoši	*kȍkoši

^* 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).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: кокошь (kokošĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: кокошъ (kokoš)
      • ⇒ Belarusian: како́шка (kakóška)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: ко́кош (kókoš)
      • Ukrainian: ко́кош (kókoš)
    • Russian: ко́кошь (kókošʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: кокошь (kokošĭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⱁⰽⱁⱎⱐ (kokošĭ)

  • ⇒ Bulgarian: коко́шка (kokóška)
  • ⇒ Macedonian: кокошка (kokoška)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̏ко̄ш

    Latin script: kȍkōš

  • Slovene: kokọ̑š (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: kokoš
  • Polish: kokosz
  • Slovak: kokoš
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kokoš
    • Upper Sorbian: kokoš

• → Albanian: kokosh
• → Hungarian: kakas
• → Romanian: cocoș

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кокошь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress