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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kortъkъ

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)kerd-, *(s)kert- (short) + *-kъ. Related to Latin curtus, Proto-Germanic *skurtaz and English curt.

Adjective

*kortъ̀kъ[1]

  1. short

Declension

Descendants

Further reading

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

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kortъ̀kъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 236:adj. o (b) ‘short’
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