Re: [tied] Etymology of Slavonic kurva?

>I had wondered about the etymology of the common Slavonic vulgar

term

>kurva "whore". Recently learning that Greek kore "girl" was

once

>written with digamma after the rho, it seems likely that these

words

>are descended from a common ancestor. It wouldn't be unlikely for

a

>neutral word to get a pejorative meaning in one language but

not

>another. For example, the Romanian word (of Dacian origin?)

copil

>"child" has a cognate in Bulgarian kopele

"bastard".

>
>Is my supposition correct or is there no way for

Slavonic kurva to be

>cognate with Gr. korwa?
>
>Christopher

Culver