Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/košь

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

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Noun

*košь m

1. basket

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: кош (koš)
  • Russian: кош (koš, “fishing-basket, bird-trap, bee-hive”) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: кіш (kiš, “basket”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: кошь (košĭ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: кош (koš, “basket”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ко̏ш (“granary, basket”)

    Latin: kȍš

    • Chakavian : kȍš (“basket”)
  • Slovenian: kòš (“basket, pannier, bee-hive, chest”)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: koš (“basket”), kůš (“basket”) (dialectal)
  • Polish: kosz (“basket”)
  • Slovak: koš (“basket”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kóš (“basket”)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 240
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кош”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress