Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/koryto

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-Indo-European *(s)kor-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”) +‎ *-yto, compare Lithuanian prãkartas (“manger, trough”), Old Prussian pracartis (“trough”), from the root *(s)kort- an extension of *(s)kor-, and *kopyto with the same suffix.

Noun

*korỳto n

1. trough

Inflection

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

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*korỳto	*korỳtě	*korỳta
genitive	*korỳta	*korỳtu	*korỳtъ
dative	*korỳtu	*korỳtoma	*korỳtomъ
accusative	*korỳto	*korỳtě	*korỳta
instrumental	*korỳtъmь, *korỳtomь*	*korỳtoma	*korỳtȳ
locative	*korỳtě	*korỳtu	*korỳtě̄xъ
vocative	*korỳto	*korỳtě	*korỳta

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *kora
• *korica
• *korьcь (“a dry measure”)
• *skora
• *korvajь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: кары́та (karýta)
  • Russian: коры́то (korýto)
  • Ukrainian: кори́то (korýto)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: корꙑто (koryto)
  • Bulgarian: кори́то (koríto)
  • Macedonian: корито (korito)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̀рито

    Latin script: kòrito

    • Chakavian (Novi): korȉto
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): korȉto
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): korȉto
  • Slovene: koríto (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: koryto
    • Czech: koryto
      • Moravian (Mistřice): korito
  • Polish: koryto
  • Polabian: ťöråitĕ
  • Slovak: koryto
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: korto
    • Lower Sorbian: kóryto

• Other:
  • → Romanian: corită

Further reading

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