Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/karati

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.

From the same root as *korìti (“to reproach”), with a long root vowel that is (per Derksen) of Proto-Slavic origin.

*karati impf^[1]

1. to punish
2. to scold

• Church Slavonic: карати (karati) (Serbian)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: карати (karati) (14th century)
    • Belarusian: кара́ць (karácʹ)
    • Russian: кара́ть (karátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: кара́ти (karáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ка́рам (káram) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: ка́рам се (káram se)
  • Macedonian: кара (kara)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ка́рати

    Latin script: kárati

  • Slovene: kȃrati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kárati
    • Czech: kárat
  • Kashubian: karac
  • Polish: karać
  • Slovak: kárať (literary)
  • Slovincian: karac
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: karaś

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ка́ра”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 377
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*karati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 152
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кара́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress