Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čerslo

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čerslo

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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kerslá. Equivalent to *čersti +‎ *-slo.

Cognate with Lithuanian ker̃slas (“cutter”) (kir̃sti, kertù), Old Prussian kersle (“pickaxe, axe with 2 blades”). Also compare Lithuanian kirkšnìs/kìrkšnis (“hip joint”), Latvian cir̂ksnis (“groin”) or Latvian šķerslis or Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍂𐌰 (hairþra), Old High German hërdar or Latin culter, cultrum.

For the meaning compare French taille (“waist”), Italian taglia (< Latin taliāre (“to cut”)).

Noun

*čerslò n[1][2]

1. plowshare

   Synonyms: *čьrtadlo, *lemešь, *ordlica, *ordlo

2. tan (tannic) (South and West Slavic)
3. (plural only) thighs (South and West Slavic)

   Synonyms: *lędvь, *bedro, *stegno

4. (plural only) loin, small of the back (East Slavic)

   Synonym: *lędvь

Declension

Declension of *čērslò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*čērslò	*čẽrslě	*čērslà
Accusative	*čērslò	*čẽrslě	*čērslà
Genitive	*čērslà	*čērslù	*čẽrslъ
Locative	*čērslě̀	*čērslù	*čẽrslěxъ
Dative	*čērslù	*čērslòma	*čērslòmъ
Instrumental	*čērslъ̀mь, *čērslòmь*	*čērslòma	*čẽrsly
Vocative	*čērslò	*čẽrslě	*čērslà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *čersъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: чересла (čeresla)
    • Belarusian:
    • Russian: чересло́ (čeresló), че́ресло (čéreslo)
    • Ukrainian: чересло́ (čeresló)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: чрѣсла (črěsla)
    • Bulgarian: чресла́ (čreslá)
    • → Russian: чре́сла (črésla)
  • Macedonian:
  • Slovene:
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: čřieslo
    • Czech: tříslo, stříslo
  • Old Polish: trzosła
  • Slovak: črieslo
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: cŕosło
    • Upper Sorbian: črjósło

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чре́сла”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “че́ресло”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čerslo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 74

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*čerslò”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 84: “n. o (b) ‘loin’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “čerslo čersla”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b plowshare (NA 113, 142; PR 135)”