Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/korukos

This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic

Etymology

Related to Latin corium (“skin, hide, leather”)^[1] and Sanskrit चर्मन् (carman, “skin, pelt”)^[2] Ancient Greek κώρυκος (kṓrukos, “leather sack”) looks almost identical except for the vowel length mismatch (which makes Stifter label such a comparison as "deceptive").^[3]

Noun

*korukos m

currach; a boat covered in animal leather

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*korukos	*korukou	*korukoi
vocative	*koruke	*korukou	*korukoi
accusative	*korukom	*korukou	*korukons
genitive	*korukī	*korukous	*korukom
dative	*korukūi	*korukobom	*korukobos
locative	*korukei	*?	*?
instrumental	*korukū	*korukobim	*korukūis

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *korug
- Middle Welsh: corwc
  - Welsh: corwg, corwgl
Old Irish: curach
- Middle Irish: curach
  - Irish: curach
  - Scottish Gaelic: curach
→ Latin: curucus (borrowed from Insular Celtic)

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*koruko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “corucos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 127
^ Stifter, David (2023) “With the Back to the Ocean: The Celtic Maritime Vocabulary”, in Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen, Eske Willerslev, editors, The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, page 187

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*koruko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “corucos”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 127

[3] Stifter, David (2023) “With the Back to the Ocean: The Celtic Maritime Vocabulary”, in Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen, Eske Willerslev, editors, The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, page 187

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