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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čersъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology 1
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *(s)kersas, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-. Cognate with Latvian šķērss (“transverse, cross”), Lithuanian sker̃sas (“transverse, cross”), Old Prussian kērscha, kirscha (“transverse, cross”).
Preposition
*čersъ[1][2]
- over, through
Alternative forms
- *čerzъ (later form, influenced by words like *vъz, *jьz)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: чересъ (čeresŭ), черосъ (čerosŭ), черезъ (čerezŭ)
- Belarusian: чэраз (čeraz)
- Russian: че́рез (čérez)
- Ukrainian: через (čerez)
- Old East Slavic: чересъ (čeresŭ), черосъ (čerosŭ), черезъ (čerezŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: чрѣсъ (črěsŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⱍⱃⱑⱄⱏ (črěsŭ)
- Bulgarian: чрез (črez)
- → Russian: чрез (črez)
- Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)
- Cyrillic: чре̏з
- Latin: črȅz
- Slovene: črez
- Old Church Slavonic:
Etymology 2
Possibly related to the preposition above, to *čerslo (“thighs”), and to Proto-Celtic *krissus (“belt”).
Noun
*čersъ m
- leather belt with purse for money, bysack-girdle, money belt
Declension
Declension of *čersъ (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *čersъ | *čersa | *čersi |
Accusative | *čersъ | *čersa | *čersy |
Genitive | *čersa | *čersu | *čersъ |
Locative | *čersě | *čersu | *čersěxъ |
Dative | *čersu | *čersoma | *čersomъ |
Instrumental | *čersъmь, *čersomь* | *čersoma | *čersy |
Vocative | *čerse | *čersa | *čersi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: чересъ (čeresŭ)
- Russian: че́рез (čérez), че́рес (čéres), че́реслъ (čéresl), че́реселъ (čéresel)
- Ukrainian: че́рес (čéres)
- Old East Slavic: чересъ (čeresŭ)
- South Slavic:
- ⇒ Russian Church Slavonic: чресленикъ (čreslenikŭ)
- → Russian: чре́сленник (čréslennik)
- ⇒ Russian Church Slavonic: чресленикъ (čreslenikŭ)
- West Slavic:
- Kashubian: třos
- Old Polish: czrzos
- Polish: trzos
- Slovak: čeres
Further reading
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “trzos”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 651
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “че́рез”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*čersъ; *čerzъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 85: “prep. ‘over, through’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “čersъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “(prep. and prefix) (PR 146)”