Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/červo

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/červo

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 *ker-m/w-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”).

Cognate with Old Prussian kērmens (“body”) and Sanskrit चर्मन् (cárman, “skin, hide”).

Noun

*čȇrvo n[1][2]

1. belly
2. intestine, gut, bowel

   Synonyms: *kyšьka, *drobina

Inflection

Declension of *čȇrvo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*čȇrvo	*čȇrvě	*červà
Accusative	*čȇrvo	*čȇrvě	*červà
Genitive	*čȇrva	*červù	*čẽrvъ
Locative	*čȇrvě	*červù	*červě̃xъ
Dative	*čȇrvu	*červomà	*červòmъ
Instrumental	*čȇrvъmь, *čȇrvomь*	*červomà	*červý
Vocative	*čȇrvo	*čȇrvě	*červà

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: черево (čerevo)
    • Belarusian: чэ́рава (čérava)
    • Russian: черёво (čerjóvo) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: че́рево (čérevo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: чрѣво (črěvo)

    Glagolitic: ⱍⱃⱑⰲⱁ (črěvo)

    • → Old East Slavic: чрево (črevo)
      • Russian: чре́во (črévo)
  • Bulgarian: черво́ (červó)
  • Macedonian: црево (crevo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: црије́во, цре́во

    Latin: crijévo, crévo, crívo

  • Slovene: črevọ̑ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: čřěvo
    • Czech: střevo
  • Polabian: crevü
  • Old Polish: czrzewa
    • Polish: trzewo, trzewa, trzewia
  • Slovak: črevo
  • Slovincian: třìe̯vɵ
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: crjowo
    • Upper Sorbian: črjewo

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*červo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 82
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чрево”, 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), “черево”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*čȇrvo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 85: “n. o (c) ‘belly, intestine’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “červo”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (PR) / b (MP[24]) mave (PR 138; MP 24)”