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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krasa

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *kreH-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hrōsaną (whence Old Norse hrósa (“to brag, to boast”)).

Noun

*krāsà f [1]

  1. beauty

Inflection
Declension of *krāsà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *krāsà *krãsě *krāsỳ
Accusative *krāsǫ̀ *krãsě *krāsỳ
Genitive *krāsỳ *krāsù *krãsъ
Locative *krāsě̀ *krāsù *krāsàsъ, *krāsàxъ*
Dative *krāsě̀ *krāsàma *krāsàmъ
Instrumental *krāsòjǫ, *krãsǫ** *krāsàma *krāsàmī
Vocative *kraso *krãsě *krāsỳ
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** 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
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: краса (krasa, “decoration”), красоѭ (krasojǫ, “adornment, decoration”)
    • Bulgarian: кра́са (krása)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: кра́са (“snake”)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: krása (“beauty”)
    • Polish: krasa (“colour, beauty”)
    • Slovak: krása (“beauty”)
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: krasa
      • Lower Sorbian: kšasa (“splendor”)

Further reading

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*krāsà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 245: “f. ā (b)”
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