Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/skovorda

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

*kotьlì i skovorda

Etymology

Likely borrowed from the Ancient Greek or Iranian source of Old Armenian սկաւառակ (skawaṙak, “saucer, plate”), which probably represents Iranian *skavarid-ak, containing the well-known suffix -ակ (-ak). Compare Persian سکوره (sokôra, “earthen dish, saucer”), Ancient Greek σκευάριον (skeuárion), σκευαρίδιον (skeuarídion, “small vessel”). Also found in Lithuanian skarvadà (“frying pan”).

Noun

*skovordà f

1. frying pan

Inflection

Declension of *skovordà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*skovordà	*skȍvordě	*skȍvordy
genitive	*skovordý	*skovordù	*skovõrdъ
dative	*skovordě̀	*skovordàma	*skovordàmъ
accusative	*skȍvordǫ	*skȍvordě	*skȍvordy
instrumental	*skovordojǫ́	*skovordàma	*skovordàmi
locative	*skȍvordě	*skovordù	*skovordàsъ, *skovordàxъ*
vocative	*skovordo	*skȍvordě	*skȍvordy

^* -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.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: сковорода (skovoroda)
    • Belarusian: скаварада́ (skavaradá)
    • Russian: сковорода́ (skovorodá)
    • Ukrainian: сковорода́ (skovorodá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: сковрада (skovrada)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: skravada, skrovada
  • Polish: skowroda
  • Upper Sorbian: škorodej
  • Lower Sorbian: škórodej

Further reading

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