Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kudo
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
Uncharacteristic o-grade s-stem, reflecting Proto-Indo-European *kówdos. Per Derksen, secondary formation from the e-grade Proto-Slavic *čudo (“wonder, miracle”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *huską, *huskaz.
Noun edit
*kudo n
- paranormal activity (e.g. sorcery, miracle, nearly impossible event)
Alternative forms edit
- *kudъ (“evil spirit”) (о-stem)
- *kudь (“magic, paranormal activity”) (i-stem)
- *kudesъ (reanalyzed from the oblique cases)
Declension edit
Declension of *kudo (s-stem)
Related terms edit
Derived terms edit
- *kudesiti (“to perform a miracle/magic”)
- *kudesьnъ (“paranormal, miraculous”)
- *kudesьnikъ (“mage, sorcerer”)
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Polish: kudyś m (“evil spirit, devil”) (dialectal)
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “куд”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kudo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 83
References edit
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kudo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 255