česmina
See also: cesmína
Serbo-Croatian
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česmina – Ilex aquifolium
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česmina – Berberis vulgaris
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česmina – Quercus ilex
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česmina – Quercus trojana
Alternative forms
- čèsmin, čèsmrka, čèsvina
- ceśmína, česmína (Chakavian)
Etymology
From čèsati, čèšati (“to scratch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃěsmina/
Noun
čèsmina f (Cyrillic spelling чѐсмина)
- common holly, Ilex aquifolium
- common barberry, Berberis vulgaris
- holm oak, Quercus ilex
- Macedonian oak, Quercus trojana (syn. Quercus macedonica)
Declension
Declension of česmina
singular | plural | |
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nominative | česmina | česmine |
genitive | česmine | česmina |
dative | česmini | česminama |
accusative | česminu | česmine |
vocative | česmino | česmine |
locative | česmini | česminama |
instrumental | česminom | česminama |
Descendants
- → Russian Church Slavonic: чесмина (česmina), чрѣсмина (črěsmina), чересмина (čeresmina)
- → Russian: чесми́на (česmína) (only known from Даль)
- → Czech: cesmína
- → Slovak: cezmína
- → Slovene: česmína, česmȋn
References
- Kolari, Veli (1993), “Zur Entstehung einer semantischen Nord/Süd-Dichotomie in Benennungen einiger Gehölze ur- bzw. gemeinslavischer Provenienz”, in Studia Slavica Finlandensia (in German), volume X, Helsinki, page 19
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “češmȋn”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar (in Slovene), 3rd edition, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, pages 114–115
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “чесмина”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Будиловичъ, Антонъ Семеновичъ (1878) Первобытные славяне въ ихъ языкѣ, бытѣ и понятіяхъ по даннымъ лексикальнымъ. Изслѣдованія въ области лингвистической палеонтологіи славянъ. Часть первая, Kiev, page 130, Copy 2, Copy 3
- Будиловичъ, Антонъ Семеновичъ (1878) Первобытные славяне въ ихъ языкѣ, бытѣ и понятіяхъ по даннымъ лексикальнымъ. Изслѣдованія въ области лингвистической палеонтологіи славянъ. Часть первая, Kiev, page 139, Copy 2, Copy 3
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “česminъ/*česmina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 4 (*čaběniti – *děl’a), Moscow: Nauka, page 88
Slovene
Alternative forms
- česmȋn
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian čèsmina, or inherited from the latest common ancestor of Slovene and Serbo-Croatian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛsmìːna/
Noun
česmína f
- common holly, Ilex aquifolium
- common barberry, Berberis vulgaris
Inflection
Feminine, a-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | česmína | ||
gen. sing. | česmíne | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) | česmína | česmíni | česmíne |
genitive (rodȋlnik) | česmíne | česmín | česmín |
dative (dajȃlnik) | česmíni | česmínama | česmínam |
accusative (tožȋlnik) | česmíno | česmíni | česmíne |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) | česmíni | česmínah | česmínah |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) | česmíno | česmínama | česmínami |
Further reading
- “česmina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran