Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъrdo

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)ḱerdʰ- (“to procede, to arrange”).

Noun

*kъrdo n

1. herd

   Coordinate terms: *stado, *glota

Alternative forms

• *kъrdъ m

Declension

Declension of *kъrdo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kъrdo	*kъrdě	*kъrda
genitive	*kъrda	*kъrdu	*kъrdъ
dative	*kъrdu	*kъrdoma	*kъrdomъ
accusative	*kъrdo	*kъrdě	*kъrda
instrumental	*kъrdъmь, *kъrdomь*	*kъrdoma	*kъrdy
locative	*kъrdě	*kъrdu	*kъrděxъ
vocative	*kъrdo	*kъrdě	*kъrda

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

Derived terms

• *kъrdařь (“herder”)
• *kъrdelь, *kъrdelo (“drove”)

Related terms

• *čerda (“herd”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Bulgarian: кръ́днина (krǎ́dnina, “pedigree”) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: крдо (krdo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кр̏до n, кр̏д m

    Latin script: kȑdo n, kȑd m

• West Slavic:
  • Polish: kierda f (dialectal)

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: cârd
    • → Ukrainian: кирд m (kyrd), кирт m (kyrt), ки́рда f (kýrda) (dialectal, borrowed from Moldovan кырд)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kъrdъ/*kъrdo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 213
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “кирд”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 435
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “*кърд/*кръд”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 200