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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/češuja
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *česàti + *-uja.
Noun
*češuja f
- scales
Declension
Declension of *češuja (soft a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *češuja | *češuji | *češuję̇ |
| Accusative | *češujǫ | *češuji | *češuję̇ |
| Genitive | *češuję̇ | *češuju | *češujь |
| Locative | *češuji | *češuju | *češujasъ, *češujaxъ* |
| Dative | *češuji | *češujama | *češujamъ |
| Instrumental | *češujejǫ, *češujǫ** | *češujama | *češujami |
| Vocative | *češuje | *češuji | *češuję̇ |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: чешуꙗ́ (češujá)
- Old Ruthenian: чешуѧ́ (češujá)
- Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Belarusian: чешу́йка (čješújka)
- Belarusian: чашуя́ (čašujá); чушуя́ (čušujá) (dialectal)
- Russian: чешуя́ (češujá)
- ⇒ Russian: шуя́ (šujá) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Old East Slavic: чешу́лѧ (češúlę); чешвеꙗ (češveja)
- Russian: чечу́ля (čečúlja), цоцу́ля (cocúlja) (dialectal)
- ⇒ Old East Slavic: чешу́ичатꙑи (češúičatyj)
- ⇒ Russian: чешу́йчатый (češújčatyj)
- → Ukrainian: чешуша́тий (češušátyj)
- ⇒ Russian: чешу́йчатый (češújčatyj)
- Old Ruthenian: чешуѧ́ (češujá)
- Old East Slavic: чешуꙗ́ (češujá)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: чешоуꙗ (češuja)
- Glagolitic: ⱍⰵⱎⱆⱑ (češuě)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: чушу́лка (čušúlka); чушу́л'ка (čušúl'ka) (dialectal)
- Old Serbo-Croatian: češuja
- ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: češuļa (archaic, rare)
- ⇒ Slovene: češúlja, česúlja, češúlja, šešúlja, čehulja
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- ⇒ Old Czech: čečule
- ⇒ Czech: češuje, češule; šešule (dialectal)
- ⇒ Czech: čečulka (dialectal)
- ⇒ Czech: češuje, češule; šešule (dialectal)
- Polish: szczeszuja, szczeczuja, szczeżuja
- ⇒ Polish: szażuła, szeszuła (archaic); ščežula (dialectal)
- ⇒ Slovak: šešuľa
- ⇒ Old Czech: čečule
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*češuja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 91
- Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1976), “češuja : češuľa”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 2 (caca – davьnota), Wrocław: National Ossoliński Institute, page 177
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чешуя́”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress