This phrase is recorded under 1719 in bonded records relating to the territory of the former Oryol province: "And on examination, Yakushka Ivanov's son is of average height, light Russian hair on his head, oblong face, dry skin, eyes in a square-gray, nose with a crown, on the right hand, on the pinky finger a wart is not much., told himself seventeen years" (Legal acts reported by A. G. Puparev. Trudy Orelskoy uchenoi archivnoy komissii [Proceedings of the Oryol Academic Archival Commission]. Orel, 1889. Issue 6. Italics in our citations. - V. Sh.). Given the fact that the word korosinka is absent both in the Dictionary of Orel Dialects and in the Dictionary of Russian Folk Dialects (hereinafter referred to as SRNG), it is undoubtedly of interest to etymologists. In what sense is it used in the quoted passage?

Let's turn to other texts of bonded books, for example, from the territory of Veliky Novgorod. They used the following expressions to describe the portrait of a person (in particular, the nose):: nose pereluk, nose perelukovat, nose kokorovat, gag-nose, nose dolok, poklyap, nose poklyap, vykoronos, nose nalivo twisted, nose crooked, nose, sharp nose, nose straight, nose pryamovat, korkonos, on the face and on the nose along the hole, on the nose mottled, nose wide, nose ploek, the nose is straight, there is not much blood on the ends of the nose, the nose is too corky, etc. (Novgorodian bonded record books of the years 100-104 and 111 [1591-1596 and 1602-1603] // Edited by A. I. Yakovlev, M.-L. 1938).

The meanings of some of these examples can be reconstructed based on similar or closely related correspondences in the dialect vocabulary, namely: Russian gag-nosed "having a flattened and bent nose at the end", slap-nosed "pressed down, flattened, twisted", slap-nosed " hooked, with a hump (about the nose)"

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13, 28); Old Russian korkonos "short-nosed", Bulgarian dialect karkanos "hook-nosed", Polish dialect korkonos "a man with an excessively upturned nose "(cit. by: Kozlova P. M. Proto-Slavic word in the genetic nest. Structure of the Proto-Slavic word. Gomel, 1997); Old Russian perelukiy "curved" (Dictionary of the Russian language of the XI-XVII centuries, Moscow, 1988. Issue 14); Ukrainian dialect perelukiy "arc-shaped" (Onishkevich M. I. Slovnik boykivskikh govirok. Kiiv, 1984. Vol. 2); Russian dialect korepany "pitted with smallpox (about the face)", "not smooth, rough" (SRNG. Issue 14) and under.

As for the mysterious korosink, the speaker in this case is an excerpt from another text of the bonded records: "On examination, Artyushka ploskolik, the nose is short (?) with a hump, the eyes are gray, the head is slightly dark with hair, there are pits in the face and on the nose and on the forehead from smallpox..." (Legal acts reported by A. P. Puparev). Soon after with a hump, in all probability, " upturned, uneven, indirect." For comparison, we present the related (related on the basis of quantitative alternation) Russian dialect vskorsy "upturned, snub-nosed" (Dal V. I. Explanatory Dictionary of the living Great Russian language, Moscow, 1978. Vol. I), as well as the Ukrainian dialect kirsatiy "snub-nosed" (Zhelekhivsky E., Nedilsky S. Malorusko-nimetsky dictionary. Львiв, 1886. Т. 1) <*корсатий, корсоногий "кривоногий" (Матерiали до словника буковинських говiрок. Чернiвi, 1976. Вип. 4) и др.

The Russian korosinka, derived from * korosina (originally an adjective on-in -), is motivated by the noun koros or korosa. The latter are presented in the Dictionary of Russian Folk Dialects: koros "flax stack", koros pl. "poles for drying flax" (SRNG. Issue 14) < more general meaning "roughness". Their genesis is described in special literature (see: Kozlova P. M. Edict op. cit. pp. 178-180). Thus, the nose with a crown is "an upturned, uneven, indirect nose."

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