чешуꙗ

чешуꙗ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

• чешоуꙗ́ (češujá), чешꙋꙗ́ (češujá), чешюꙗ́ (češjujá), чешуѧ́ (češuę́), чешвеꙗ́ (češvejá), чешꙋлѧ (češulę)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *češujà. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic чешоуꙗ (češuja).

Noun

чешуꙗ́ (češujá) f (related adjective чешуичатꙑи, diminutive чешуика)

1. scales

   Synonym: луска́ (luská)

2. scaly roofing

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: чешуꙗ́ (češujá)
• Russian: чешуя́ (češujá)
  • ⇒ Russian: шуя́ (šujá) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “чешꙋꙗ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1516
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “чешвеꙗ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1515