Abstract
The common Indo-European origin оf Slavic and Iranian languages, and their contacts over many centuries have created various genetic lexical correspondences, including parallelism in structurally similar derivatives of related verbs and relationships among I.-E. derivative variations. In the present article, we analyse the semantic and structural correspondence of Proto-Slav. *kórsta ‘skin illness, bark, outgrowth’ and Proto-Iran. *karasta ‘skin’. The latter is reconstructed as *kart-ta- < I.-E. *kr̥-t-ta ‘cut off’ from the I.-E.*(s)ker-/*(s)kerǝ-/*(s)krē- ‘to cut, cut off’ with the determinant -t- – *(s)kert-. Reflexes of this I.-E. verb are the Protoslav verbs *čersti/*čr̥tǫ ‘draw, make furrow’ and *kr̥t(a/ě/i)ti ‘break, damage’. It is possible to explain the correspondence of the Proto-Slav.*kórsta and Proto-Iran. *karasta as due to parallelism in structurally similar derivatives of related verbs or as a reflection of the I.-E. derivative with its variations: *kor(ǝ)t-tā/*kr̥-t-tо-.
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